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Hundreds of thousands of older people missing out on health benefits of exercising with others

Charity ambassador Wayne Sleep OBE advocates for the benefits of group exercise and calls for new volunteers to #MakeADifference by supporting the Royal Voluntary Service in an inspirational new film

HRH The Duchess of Cornwall and Elaine Paige OBE launch charity’s Big Trolley Push campaign

HRH The Duchess of Cornwall and Elaine Paige OBE, joined forces at the Leicester General Hospital, to launch Royal Voluntary Service’s call for more volunteers to support the NHS

HRH The Duchess of Cornwall visits Royal Voluntary Service’s Cornhill Centre in Oxfordshire

Royal Voluntary Service President, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, visits Cornhill Centre in Banbury to hear about vital support provided to local older people.

HRH The Duchess of Cornwall joins fan making class

HRH The Duchess of Cornwall joined a Royal Voluntary Service First Time for Everything fan making class at the Fan Museum in Greenwich

Every day thousands of older people skip meals or rely on ready meals

Lack of visitors has detrimental effect on patient recovery

Volunteers on hospital wards can play a vital role with the many patients who don’t have visitors, new research by Royal Voluntary Service found

HRH The Duchess of Cornwall visits local lunch club

Royal Voluntary Service welcomed its President, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, to its Dolau Bran lunch club in Llandovery, as it celebrates its 40th anniversary

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust presented with £94k gift

Royal Voluntary Service presents Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust with a gift of £94,000 at a special afternoon tea held at the Royal Sussex County Hospital

MasterChef’s toughest critic awards volunteer cooks five stars

Food critic, William Sitwell, served up a glowing review for volunteer cooks at one of Royal Voluntary Service’s popular lunch clubs