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Why not just contact the Hospice directly - several friends and family have done this in the past.

The volunteer bureaux based in Peckham can give you details of agencies/charities in ED.

Link Age based in Jarvis Road are always seeking volunteers and so are the Red Cross based in Kings who need people to visit people leaving hospital;

Here is a useful website - you can search volunteering opportunities by type and by distance from your postcode. As Pugwash says, you can contact St Christopher's directly but if that doesn't work out, then try this:

https://do-it.org/


By the way, my experience of arranging for a friend's daughter to volunteer in a St Christopher's shops was that they weren't great at getting back to me, (but I expect that their office may be staffed by volunteers too) but once the arrangement was set up, she had a good time working there for a few weeks, and I hope she was useful to them.

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