Become Part of the Team

Welcome to Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals and thank you for your interest in volunteering.

We value our volunteers highly and greatly appreciate the work you do for us.

As a volunteer, you will become part of a team dedicated to helping support our efforts to provide a high quality healthcare and patient service user experience.

It is also a great opportunity to make new friends, learn new skills or enhance existing ones.

Whatever time you can spare will be a great help. From administration to portering to helping as a mealtime support volunteer, every role is equally valuable.

On these pages, you can find out more about the services we provide and how you can join us.


Voluntary Services Manager

 

A day of two palaces for Hospital Trust volunteers

Four volunteers from Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (ASPH) attended the Queen’s Garden Party at Buckingham Palace on Thursday, June 6.

Sheila Knight, Christine Taylor, Peter Lynn and Eldon Sandys were the lucky winners of the ballot to represent all of the 380 volunteers at the two hospitals in recognition of the Trust receiving the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service in 2012.

L to R: Eldon Sandys; Christine Taylor; Peter Lynn; Sheila Knight

On the same day eight more ASPH volunteers, accompanied by the Trust’s Voluntary Services Manager, Julie Addison, were given a tour of the Palace of Westminster and entertained to lunch in the Strangers’ Dining Room by Jonathan Lord, MP for Woking, who formally supported the Trust volunteers’ successful nomination for the Queen’s Award last year ... read more.

The Queen’s Award presented to Ashford and St Peter’s Volunteers The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service was presented to the volunteers of Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust by The Lord Lieutenant of Surrey, Dame Sarah Goad, in a ceremony at Painshill Park, Cobham, on Thursday September 6. Volunteer Eldon Sandys accepted the award on behalf of all 380 Trust volunteers – with around 150 volunteers attending the ceremony. ... read more

Volunteers have been operating at the hospitals from 1966 ...
Ashford Hospital Hostesses were (known as ‘Shrimps’ – because of their pink uniforms)