Volunteer Hub

A variety of new online badges have been created to help you share your love of volunteering with friends and family. Help us spread the word by downloading and sharing on your social media or adding one to an email signature - you never know who you might inspire to help out too!

We want you to get the most out of volunteering with us and feel supported. Your volunteer manager will be able to tell you more about how we can support you in your role.

The Welcome to Volunteering booklet has been designed for volunteers as an overview of everything you need to know about your time with us. It includes volunteer stories, our commitment to you, and outlines why volunteers like you are vital to Cancer Research UK.

At Cancer Research UK, we’re committed to being an anti-racist and inclusive organisation. So as a volunteer with us, it’s important that you understand our EDI values and aims and embody these values during your time here. We’ve written this guide for our volunteers as a basic overview of what we mean by EDI (Equality, diversity and inclusion) and what we’re doing to be inclusive to all.

We’re delighted to have recently been awarded the Investing in Volunteers accreditation for good practice in volunteer management. We appreciate the amazing impact that our volunteers have on our mission to beat cancer. This accreditation is our commitment that we’ll do all we can to give back to our volunteers as much as you give to us.   

Have you heard about our new Cancer Research UK podcast? Our third episode is joined by Sigourney Bell, a researcher at The University of Cambridge, whose work looks to find new treatments for supratentorial ependymoma, a rare children’s brain cancer.

Hear about the challenges of working on a rare children's cancer and what led to the founding of Black in Cancer. 

Thanks to volunteers like you, we’ve made huge advances in the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer. Read more about some of the ways we celebrate the achievements of our volunteers. 

Join our Talk Cancer live online workshop to feel more equipped and confident to have supportive conversations about how people can reduce their risk of cancer, the importance of early diagnosis, and cancer screening.

The online workshops are led by our experienced Talk Cancer trainers, and on completion you’ll get a certificate and a digital Talk Cancer information booklet.