NCVO have spoken to the government and looked at the latest guidance to provide some answer to the key questions around volunteering.

The announcement from the government on 23 March 2020 made it clear. The single most important action we can all take is to stay at home. If people are volunteering from home, great – carry on.

However, if volunteering means people need to leave the house, this should be done following government advice. This includes exceptions to the ‘stay at home’ instruction for people providing care to others and needing to travel. In other words, people can go out to volunteer if they’re providing help to vulnerable people or if their volunteering cannot be done from home.

You can read more about volunteering and helping neighbours on the NCVO website here.

And you may find this information on NCVO's KnowHow site useful, covering how to involve volunteers and how to redirect volunteers if you can't take on any more.

We have also updated our good neighbour page - read about how to help while keeping yourself and others safe here.