Be Mindful: How volunteering can help mental health

National Volunteers’ Week: How volunteering has made a Sutton Coldfield man feel ‘needed and wanted’ after retirement

Jonty Carter (67) from Sutton Coldfield felt “like a fish out of water” when retirement left him “with no real purpose in life”, but volunteering for Birmingham Museums Trust has made him feel “needed and wanted” again.

Be Mindful: How volunteering can help mental health

EL PASO (KVIA) -  The National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, points out on its website that volunteering is a great way of improving mental health. That's something definitely recognized at the Socorro Independent School District, where some volunteers tell ABC-7 anchor Paul Cicala, that donating their time to help the schools, truly aid in their mental well-being. Anielka Figueroa volunteers as a band booster at El Dorado High School. Sh…

Volunteering and service to others could help with the loneliness epidemic

As part of our series on community and service, called Here to Help, Mary Louise Kelly speaks to former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy about the benefits of volunteering.

We lack young people as volunteers and as part of the associations' communities, and one category among the young people in particular is lacking. That is the group of young people who are outside the education system and the labor market. But we at DBU Bredde have some suggestions for how we can, through mutual help and..