Become a Wellbeing Volunteer! Do good to feel good!
Our first group of volunteers at Lower Moor Farm with Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
2026 volunteering dates announced!
The Hills Group is now supporting and encouraging all employees to volunteer up to two days a year to help carefully chosen local environmental and people-based charities. In return you’ll receive full pay and an enormous sense of satisfaction from doing something different and making new friends from across the business while making a difference to communities around us.
25 February – Prospect Hospice – four volunteers sorted donations at Prospect’s distribution centre in wroughton.
09 April – Prospect Hospice – nine volunteers worked in the gardens at Wroughton alongside regular Hospice volunteers.
16 June – Cotswold Lakes Trust – Volunteers needed to cut back plants at Ashton Keynes
07 August – Pheonix Enterprises – volunteers needed to assisit with hand assembly tasks and chatting to service users.
19 August – Prospect Hospice – four volunteers needed to sort pre-loved donations at Prospect’s distribution centre in wroughton.
22 September – Cotswold Lakes Trust (CLT – volunteers needed to manage plantlife on one of CLT’s islands.
08 October – Prospect Hospice – ten volunteers worked in the gardens at Wroughton alongside regular Hospice volunteers.
18 November – Pheonix Enterprises – volunteers needed to assist with hand assembly tasks and to chat to service users.
For your chance to volunteer, ask your manager for an expression of interest form or download here >>>
What are the benefits of volunteering?
- Meet new people
- Learn new skills
- Get out into nature
- Improve your sense of mental wellbeing and physical health
- Make a difference to your community and environment
- Find a new interest
- Improve your confidence
Our chosen charities currently include:
Phoenix Enterprises:
A charity focused on supporting individuals who face significant barriers to employment, such as long-term unemployment, mental health challenges, or disability. It aims to help these individuals build the skills, confidence, and experience they need to secure and maintain employment. Through training, mentorship, and work experience opportunities, Phoenix Enterprises empowers people to take control of their futures and create positive changes in their lives.
Tasks to get involved with:
Chatting to service users providing interest to their day and being a role model while working on jobs like assembling Macmillan Cancer Support leaflets, packing posh jams for Edinburgh Preserves, collating language leaflets for Fluke, or assembling Sky boxes for people to return their remote controls.
Wiltshire Wildlife Trust:
A charity dedicated to protecting and preserving the natural environment of Wiltshire. The Trust works to conserve wildlife, restore habitats, and engage local communities in environmental education and action. It aims to ensure that Wiltshire’s wildlife thrives for future generations, focusing on protecting endangered species, improving biodiversity, and combating climate change.
Tasks to get involved with:
Hands-on experience maintaining nature reserves, ensuring that trails are safe, litter is cleared, and other areas are properly cared for to provide a welcoming space for wildlife and visitors alike.
Cotswold Lakes Trust:
A charity committed to the conservation and enhancement of the Cotswold lakes and their surrounding wetlands. The Trust aims to protect and restore the unique aquatic ecosystems in the Cotswolds, ensuring that the local lakes, rivers, and wetlands are preserved for both wildlife and people to enjoy.
Tasks to get involved with:
Hands on experience improving nature reserves and improving habitat quality and well as monitor wildlife by gathering data.
Prospect Hospice:
Prospect Hospice supports patients, carers and families with end-of-life care. They offer our services to more than 330,000 people across Swindon, Marlborough and the surrounding areas. Their team of nurses, doctors and therapists support patients at the Hospice in Wroughton, in their own homes and care homes. Carers and family members can also access a range of free support services.
Tasks to get involved with:
From indoor sorting of pre-loved donations and tending to the Hospice’s gardens to give patients and families a beautiful outlook in difficult times, Prospect has lots of regular and ad hoc volunteering opportunities including supprting fundraising events. If you wish to arrange to volunteer in your own time the Hospice can also be contacted directly – download the leaflet below for more details.
