{"id":15531,"date":"2017-10-18T14:30:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T13:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=15531"},"modified":"2017-10-19T14:34:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T13:34:57","slug":"unsurprisingly-there-is-a-link-between-volunteering-and-improved-wellbeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2017\/10\/unsurprisingly-there-is-a-link-between-volunteering-and-improved-wellbeing\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsurprisingly there is a link between volunteering and improved wellbeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was world mental health day recently and here&#8217;s a couple of interesting related articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thirdsector.co.uk\/sir-stuart-etherington-volunteering-help-mental-problems\/management\/article\/1447156\">Sir Stuart Etherington, chief executive of NCVO, outlined how volunteering can improve mental health.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Wildlife Trusts also published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/oct\/02\/natural-health-service-wildlife-volunteers-get-mental-health-boost?CMP=share_btn_tw\">evidence that supports the link between volunteering and improved wellbeing<\/a>. A survey amongst their volunteers showed that two-thirds noticed improved wellbeing within six weeks. Half of those who started with low mental wellbeing reported improved wellbeing after 12 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Well worth a read.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you want to discuss improving your volunteering offer then please contact Liz or Jacky at VANEL.<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-15531\" data-postid=\"15531\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-15531 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of interesting articles talking about the link between volunteering and wellbeing following on from World Mental Health day recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-42v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15531"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15532,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15531\/revisions\/15532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}