Whether you can offer a few hours, a regular half day or would be interested in supporting a short term project, there are many ways for you to give your time, skills and energy. We have a wide range of volunteering opportunities in the Hospice itself and throughout our care area of Surrey, South West London and Middlesex. If you don’t see any current opportunities below that you are interested in, or you have any questions please contact the Volunteering Team on 01372 461856 or email [email protected].
Introduction to Volunteering - Event
Are you thinking about volunteering, but can’t decide which role is best for you?
Do you like meeting people? Are you a good listener? Maybe you’re a fantastic organiser or someone who loves to get stuck into admin? We’ve got volunteering opportunities for everyone. Do you have time to spare? Then you could volunteer with us. Whether you can volunteer for a couple of days each week, month or year we have a role to suit you. We need people with a wide variety of skills and experience and embrace diversity, offering a welcoming and inclusive environment for all our volunteers.
We run ‘Introduction to Volunteering’ sessions regularly throughout the year. Each session lasts about 1 hour and includes a short presentation about who we are, as well as an overview of currently available volunteering roles. After the presentation, you will have the chance to speak with our Volunteer Team, ask any questions you may have, and discuss which volunteering role is best suited for you.
Upcoming sessions:
Wednesday 14 October 2026 6pm
Thursday 19 November 2026 2pm
To reserve your spot at the event, simply fill out the short form via the button below. For further details about our roles please contact the Volunteering Team on 01372 461856 or email [email protected]
Shop Volunteer
Our Shop Volunteers are an important part of the work we do at Princess Alice Hospice. On your local high streets, they help our shops turn takings directly into outstanding care.
Volunteering in one of our shops not only makes a difference to those we care for, it will make a difference to your life too. In our vibrant, sociable shops you will find new friends, colleagues, whilst gaining a wealth of valuable experience and also bagging a bargain for yourself!
If you’re comfortable interacting with the public, enjoy working as part of a team, and have an eye for tidiness and detail, we’d love to hear from you.
Full training and guidance will be provided to support you with your volunteering journey at Princess Alice Hospice.
For further details on how you can get involved, please contact the Volunteering Team on 01372 461856 or [email protected]
Christmas Tree Collection Volunteers
Every January, our community comes together to collect Christmas trees from people’s doorstep and recycle them, in exchange for a donation to the Hospice. The more volunteers we recruit, the more trees we can collect, meaning the more funds we can raise to continue delivering our free expert, compassionate end of life care and bereavement support for local patients and families whenever and wherever they need it most.
By becoming a Christmas Tree Collection Volunteer, you will enable us to raise funds that support the Hospice’s mission to expand its excellent care to more people across our community. With your help, our goal this year is to collect more than 1,400 trees and raise over £35,000.
You’ll be either driving your own van or assisting the van driver and visiting residential properties to collect trees, pruning them to enable easier loading, loading them onto a van, and offloading them at drop-off locations for recycling.
This is a short-term volunteering role, taking place between 8 January – 12 January 2027 in 22 different postcodes across our care area. You can sign up to help us for a half day or as many shifts as you would like!
For further details about this role please get in touch with the Volunteering Team on 01372 461856 or email [email protected]
Santa Fun Run Volunteers
Join in the fun by helping to cheer on runners and help keep them on track. It promises to be a really fun day out and a great way to support a fantastic cause!
You will sign in participants as they arrive and hand out Santa Suits, then help indicate where they need to continue along the route. Once the run has started, if you could spare time to walk over to the finish line and cheer them as they finish, it will be greatly appreciated by the runners. We also want to help maintain the park and make sure we have not left any litter, so your help with this would be invaluable!
Santa Fun Run will be held on Sunday 13 December at Bushy Park. We are looking for Santa Fun Run Volunteers to be on-site from 8:30am – 12pm. The run begins at 10am.
We hope to see you there! If you can’t make that day, can you help spread the word about our iconic and much loved event?
For further details about this role please contact the Volunteering Team on 01372 461856 or email [email protected]
E-commerce Assistant Volunteer
The online marketplace is a fantastic way to support our fundraising efforts and boost vital donations for the Hospice. When selling items online, we take the time to research each item, snap some great photos, set fair prices, and list them on the right platforms. If you enjoy online shopping, have a good eye for detail and a flair for photography, then this could be the perfect role for you!
Ideally, you will commit to a 4 hour shift between 10am and 2pm on either Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and/or Fridays.
You’ll be comfortable using online marketplace platforms (especially Ebay), confident writing product descriptions, and taking photos with the provided smartphone on a white background. By volunteering as an E-commerce Assistant Volunteer, you’ll not only gain new skills, knowledge, and social networks, you’ll be making a difference in your local community.
For further details about this role, please get in touch with the Volunteering Team on 01372 461856 or email [email protected]
Community Fundraiser Volunteer
As a Community Fundraiser Volunteer, you will commit to a few hours a month in your local area to assist with our tin collection. This will involve visiting various shops, pubs and cafes on your local high street to collect the full tins and replace them with new ones at least every 3 months. You can also get involved in various fundraising events or help distribute posters and leaflets to your local Princess Alice Hospice Shops. Your role will be crucial in supporting our fundraising team.
We are particularly interested to hear from potential volunteers who can cover one of these areas: Addlestone, Ashford, Ashtead, Barnes, Bookham (Great), Chertsey, Chessington, Cobham, Dorking, Epsom, Ewell, Feltham, Hersham /Halfway, Hinchley Wood, New Malden, Shepperton, Sunbury, Sutton, Tadworth, Teddington, Thames Ditton, Twickenham, Weybridge, Worcester Park.
By volunteering as a Community Fundraiser Volunteer, you’ll not only gain new skills, knowledge, and social networks; you’ll be making a difference in your local community.
For further details about this role please contact the Volunteering Team on 01372 461856 or email [email protected]
Restaurant Cashier Volunteer
Our busy catering team supports all the hospice’s catering needs, including patient meals, hot and cold dining room service, sandwiches and snacks for the coffee shop, and meeting room support.
We’re looking for friendly volunteers to support the Catering Team. The Restaurant Cashier role is a great support to the catering team as they can focus on preparing food while you can focus on ensuring that customers are being served in a warm, friendly and welcoming manner.
You’ll be trustworthy, reliable, and comfortable serving the public. You’ll also enjoy working as part of a busy team.
By giving some of your time and volunteering as a Restaurant Cashier with our Catering Team, you’ll not only gain new experiences, perspectives, and social networks; you’ll be making a difference in your local community.
For further details, please contact the Volunteering Team on 01372 461856 or [email protected].
Compassionate Neighbour
Be the difference on your doorstep.
Compassionate Neighbours are trained volunteers offering friendship, support and listening ear to people living in their local community, sometimes with serious, long-term or terminal illness who often struggle with loneliness.
By popping round for a cup of tea or a friendly chat once a week you can make a world of difference. You will be a good listener, kind and have a genuine interest in other people.
As a Compassionate Neighbour Volunteer you’ll not only gain new skills, confidence, and social networks; you’ll be making a difference in your local community.
Full training and support is provided. Training for our next intake will be held at the Hospice on the following dates:
Saturdays 7 & 14 November 2026, 9:30am – 3:30pm
If you are unable to attend the above dates, we have scheduled training dates for later on in the new year:
Tuesday 19 and Friday 22 January 2027, 9:30am – 3:30pm
For further details about this role please contact the Volunteering Team on 01372 461856 or email [email protected]
Events Volunteer
From sports events to summer fetes, car park marshalling to open gardens…being a volunteer can make a real difference to someone’s life and to your life too.
As an Events Volunteer, you provide support at our events taking place throughout the year and quite simply, we couldn’t do these without you. The role is fun and varied – from helping to set up and running a stall at our fete, to keeping our Santas on track at the fun run. Just a few hours a day, month or year can help us raise those vital funds for your local hospice. You’ll need be able to commit to a few hours for at least 1 event per year.
By joining us, you’ll discover new friends, new skills and confidence whilst knowing you’re supporting people in our community with life limiting illnesses and their families too.
Discover the difference your time can make to people for whom time matters most.
For further details about this role, please contact the Volunteering Team on 01372 461856 or email [email protected]
Shop Servicing Assistant Volunteer - Hersham Hub
Our hub in Hersham is at the heart of our retail operations. Donations are centrally stored at the hub and then distributed to our 40+ shops across our care community.
We are looking for volunteers to assist our van drivers (you’ll be not driving) in collecting and delivering donations to various shops across our care community. If you would enjoy being out on the road with our van drivers, travelling between shops, and transporting donated goods, then this could be the role for you!
You will be able to commit to one shift per week which is a full day with relevant breaks. You’ll be comfortable with moving and handling bulky items, friendly and approachable.
For further details about our roles please contact the Volunteering Team on 01372 461856 or email [email protected]
Community Champion Volunteer
At Princess Alice Hospice, we believe hospice care should be accessible to everyone. We are committed to building connections with people from all communities, understanding what matters to them, and making sure they can access the support they need in an environment that feels welcoming and inclusive. We are working to understand and address barriers such as awareness, language, culture, faith, and past experiences, so that everyone feels supported.
As a Community Champion Volunteer, you’ll help raise awareness of the support available, sharing information with local groups, organisations, and community networks. You’ll encourage conversations that increase understanding of hospice care and play an important role in building relationships with diverse communities, helping us reach people who may be less aware of our services.
For further details about our roles, please contact the Volunteering Team on 01372 461856 or email [email protected]
Ward Support Volunteer
Are you thinking of pursuing a career in healthcare and want to gain experience in the field? Would you like to gain some hands-on experience working with patients? Do you want to know what it’s like to work on a ward with multi-disciplinary teams? Are you curious to see compassionate care in action?
If yes to all of the above (and you are aged between 17-19 years by March 2027), this could be the programme for you! In exchange for a few hours every week, we can help support your career ambitions by providing you with meaningful and valuable experience volunteering directly with patients in our In-Patient Unit (IPU). Our Ward Support Volunteers get amazing opportunities on every shift to care for patients and support our nurses and healthcare assistants.
Over the course of this 6 month programme, you will interact with patients and staff on a weekly basis, gain invaluable insights into compassionate healthcare and expand your skill set, knowledge, and confidence. You’ll also meet other Ward Support Volunteers with interests similar to yours. At the end of the programme, we recognise and celebrate your volunteering journey with a certificate of your achievement.
You must be able to commit to volunteering one evening every week, from Sunday 7 March 2027, for six months with minimal absence. The mandatory training day will be Saturday 6 March 2027.
Closing date for applications is 22 November 2026. Interviews will take place in December.
For further details about this role please contact the Volunteering Team on 01372 461856 or email [email protected]
Duke of Edinburgh Volunteering
Are you completing your Bronze Award and looking to volunteer somewhere you can make a real difference in your local community?
You’ve come to the right place! We have a choice of two, 13 week, home-based volunteer routes you can apply for.
Both give you the chance to learn about our work and understand more about the Princess Alice Hospice shops and how we turn pre-loved items into hands on care.
1. Fundraising Challenge🪙🪣
Organise and run a fundraising event or challenge. We have an A-Z of ideas or come up with your own!
2. Crafting Challenge🧵🎨
Make bunting, create thank you cards or put your own crafty idea into action!
Find out more or apply below.
Other opportunities
If you’re interested in volunteering at Princess Alice Hospice but don’t see any current opportunities that you are interested in, please complete our online Application Form below. We have a wide range of volunteering opportunities in the Hospice itself and throughout our care area of Surrey, South West London and Middlesex. Have a think about your interests and skills and the time that you will be able to commit. Whether it’s 4 hours a month or 4 hours a week, we can support you in deciding what role will work best for you.
For further details about our roles please contact the Volunteering Team on 01372 461856 or email [email protected]
