Volunteers

Volunteers at Olive Branch food bank sorting through food donations .

Campaign launched as food banks see ‘drastic drop’ in food donations

Some our team members

Roots Community Leads Clean-Up Efforts Across Blackburn

Some of the images on display at Capturing Carnforth launch

Tea and Memories: The Friends of Carnforth Library Launch Capturing Carnforth: ...

Opening of Carnforth Library, 1936. Reproduced with the permission of the Archive Service Manager, Lancashire Archives

Charity grant helps celebrate heritage of town library

New documentary explains how old Christmas trees are helping to protect the coast

Sand, Sea, Xmas Trees: How old festive saplings guard against floods

RNLI rescue dog after 14ft fall into river

Caught on Camera: Dog rescued by RNLI after falling 14ft into river

Canal & River Trust volunteers

Call for volunteers in North West to help wildlife by keeping canals alive

Injured man rescued from snow-covered mountain

Dramatic moment injured man is rescued from snow-covered mountain

Saltmarsh at Hest Bank in 2002.

Discover village’s coastal story and shape the future of our shoreline

Paying respects at the Gynn Square memorial service to officers who died in the 1983 rescue mission at Blackpool.|Lucinda Herbert, Blackpool Gazette

Video: Police sea tragedy remembered as memorial goes ahead in snow

Dad makes teddies with medical devices to help sick youngsters

The drive has raised over £15 million to support children from some of the poorest parts of the UK

Over 300,000 disadvantaged UK children will open gifts on December 25

Dramatic footage shows the terrifying moment huge waves crashed into a yacht- seconds before rescue.

Terrifying moment yacht gets slammed by huge waves in dramatic rescue

A lost dog has been reunited with his owner - after she caused the motorway to temporarily shut down 8 TIMES!!!

Lost dog shuts M25 eight times - watch beloved pet get rescued

Watch as War Horse memorial gets purple poppy coat to remember fallen service animals

Watch as War Horse statue gets draped in beautiful purple poppy coat

Video grab from heartbreaking footage showing 'waterfalls' of 3,000 bits of rubbish including drinks cans and Santa hats left by people on Mount Snowdon.

'Waterfall' of rubbish cascades down Mt Snowdon in heartbreaking video

From left: Lisa Shrimpton, volunteer co-ordinator and Charles Tyrer, CEO in front of the Gregson with £20K National Lottery cheque.

Popular arts and community centre celebrates after £20k funding boost

‘Seeds of Change’ has been launched by HMPPS as part of a new recruitment drive that encourages people to combine their passion with their career for something more fulfilling

Community Payback roles are open to outdoorsy and garden-loving people

Sir Humphry Davy with his notebooks showing doodles, artwork, poetry and calculations. Courtesy: Royal Institution.

Life and times of Humphry Davy - local launch for new resource

Heysham power station staff taking part in the beach clean.

Power station staff carry out beach cleans

New Claver Hill trustees Caroline Jackson, Anne Chapman and Steve Jenkins pictured in a Claver Hill polytunnel.

New trustees for former farmer's field as community asset becomes a charity

Citizen scientists can send in images of their hands using a special H-Unique app

Call for 500 ‘citizen scientists’ to help complete pioneering hand identificatio...

Let's BeFriends is reaching out to the homeless in Lancaster and Morecambe.

Meet the volunteers offering friendship and support to the homeless

Supergran Mary Lamb to 'climb' the Three Peaks with her assistance dog Sheldon.

UK’s first female wheelchair user to ‘climb’ the Three Peaks

The 'stray' dog giving Bay Search and Rescue crews the runaround at Arnside.

Appeal to trace owner of ‘stray’ dog seen running loose in bay a number of times

RNLI rescue dog after 14ft fall into river

Watch: Moment RNLI rescue dog after 14ft fall into river

Volunteer supporting a child with their reading

Celebrating 10 years of reading support for children

Volunteer supporting a child with their reading

More volunteers needed in Lancashire as reading charity celebrates a decade of s...

The rescue of Ben Longton, 18, in snowy conditions on Scafell Pike, by Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team.

Watch dramatic rescue as boy falls down waterfall in freak blizzard

Rescue teams on the mountain rescuing Ben Longton from Lancaster.

Watch teen’s rescue from England’s highest mountain

Stranded in a ravine in snow, Ben Longton said he was hallucinating and "on the brink of death".

Teen rescued from England’s highest mountain thought he was going to die

(L to R) Lynn Hart, Hazel Barker, Carol Dunkley, Sandra Searle and Stuart Martin beside the knitted tank.

Watch: We knitted a life-sized tank to commemorate D-Day

Community Transport helping people get around

Lancaster District Community & Voluntary Solutions: Community Cars is a vital co...

A giant drumming octopus was part of a parade for Morecambe Baylight 2024.

Volunteers held giant octopus tentacles weighing 7kg in parade

Dalton Square in the Forties.

Fascinating old pictures take you back to Lancaster in the 1940s

A hazel dormouse. Photo by Jago Miller

Success for mission to reintroduce 10 threatened animals and plants

Sir Humphry Davy, Bt, by Henry Howard (1803). Picture: National Portrait Gallery London.

Researchers discover 100s of unpublished poems written by 'Davy lamp' inventor

LYC volunteers like Jade Hodgkiss have the chance to support young people on their challenges.

Youth charity appealing for new volunteers for 2024

These are the nation’s top 20 unsung heroes

Matt Panesh, Winter Gardens, Morecambe for the poetry festival.

Volunteers and hosts needed for Poetry Festival and poets

Loch Ness Monster 2023: Volunteers wanted for biggest ‘monster hunt’ in 50 years - how to apply

Volunteers wanted for biggest Loch Ness Monster hunt in 50 years

Louis the Jack Russell with his owner after being rescued

Dog rescued after falling down one of UK’s biggest waterfalls

Lancaster Golf Club which has been saved by volunteers.

Hard-working volunteers save historic club from closure

PD Arnie has graduated as a police dog despite harsh conditions in his early life

Puppy graduates as police dog after being found during raid

Metropolitan Police officers march along The Mall in London as they head to their positions for of the coronation processions of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

Coronation: Street safety volunteers arrested over rape alarm concerns

Sally Field pictured with the late Paul OGrady

Britain's oldest dog walker crowned coronation champion by RSPCA

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