Volunteers

Volunteers from Chantry Rotary Club and members of staff from the Castleford Centre at Airedale Library.

Hampers delivered to Children First Hubs across Wakefield

Eco-warriors from Stanley Grove Academy visited our Pinderfields Hospital site and joined members of the Trust Sustainability team to plant seeds collected as part of the initiative.

Hundreds of trees planted around Pinderfields following seed collection

With Glastonbury 2025 tickets selling out, there are still some options to get you to the biggest UK music festival in 2025.

How to get Glastonbury tickets if you missed out on general sale

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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

Pictures from the Featherstone War Horse purple poppy project unveiling

16 pictures from the Featherstone War Horse poppy coat unveiling

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

‘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

Ivy and Willow

Can you give these cat sisters who had a rough start in life a new home?

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 RSPCA is thanking volunteers across the region as part of National Volunteers' Week.

RSPCA thanks Wakefield volunteers as part of Volunteers' Week

RNLI rescue dog after 14ft fall into river

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

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Hollywood to Horbury

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

(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
Watch this video showing an impressive life-sized tank which has been hand-knitted to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Lucinda Herbert

Volunteer at a Marie Curie Great Daffodil Appeal collection raising vital funds for the charity

Marie Curie needs people of Wakefield to volunteer for Great Daffodil Appeal

Coun Jack Hemingway with William Poppleton, Street Scene Supervisor.

Volunteers needed to help plant more than 50,000 tress in Wakefield wood

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Hamper packing volunteers

Volunteers pack Christmas hampers for Wakefield families in need

Guide Dogs partnered with the Age UK Wakefield District to improve the awareness and skills of volunteers who work with those living with sight loss in the region.

Guide Dogs team up with Age UK Wakefield District to train volunteers

Could you spare just a few hours each month to help the NSPCC keep children in Wakefield safe?

Volunteers in Wakefield needed to help NSPCC keep schoolchildren safe

Volunteers from Wakefield's B&Q branch at Cathedral Retail Park spent two days refreshing the Tree of Life sculpture at Wakefield Hospice.

B&Q volunteers refresh Wakefield Hospice sculpture

The team are participating to raise vital funds to support over 350 young people in Horbury.

Horbury Youth Project volunteers to take part in the Great North Run

Julia has asked people to contact her for more information or to register their interest, and that volunteers don't have to be Royal British Legion members

Poppy Appeal seeking volunteers to help with Remembrance efforts

Planet Patrol will be hosting a Paddleboard Clean Up event in Castleford on August 18 at 10am

Environmental group to host Paddleboard Clean Up on Castleford waterway

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
The Loch Ness Centre is looking for volunteers to take part in the biggest search in more than 50 years
Will Millar

Anna Natasha Howard, founder and trustee of Wakefield Street Kitchen.

Wakefield Street Kitchen to donate chocolate boxes to Pinderfields

Louis the Jack Russell with his owner after being rescued

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

Allerton Bywater Primary pupils and teachers got together to pick up litter at the RSPB's nature reserve

Castleford pupils join community clean up at RSPB beauty spot

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

Lionel Richie, Katy Perry, and Take That were among the stars who performed at King Charles's coronation concert at Windsor Castle. Photo by YUI MOK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images.

Wakefield's Penny Appeal volunteers attend coronation concert at Windsor Castle

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

Six pictures of a coronation phone box in Horbury Bridge

Village phone box been decked out for the coronation of Charles III

Sally Field pictured with the late Paul OGrady

Britain's oldest dog walker crowned coronation champion by RSPCA

Bob Jones, a volunteer at the National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield.

Wakefield museum's open day hailed a 'success'

The cast for the highly anticipated Hunger Games prequel film The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has been revealed. (Credit: Getty Images)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - full cast

Former miners Pete Wadsworth, Tony Banks and Pete McGowan

Volunteers sought for National Coal Mining Museum

Thousands of volunteers are needed to offer their helping hands over the course of King Charles III’s coronation celebrations - Credit: Getty Images

King Charles III coronation looking for thousands of volunteers

The NHS has re-launched its Check in and Chat service for isolated patients

NHS re-launches volunteer service for lonely and isolated patients

Hospital Radio Award winner Vicky Pinder in the studio at Dewsbury and District Hospital on Halifax Road.

Charity radio station urgently appeals for technical help

British National dies in Ukraine, Foreign Office confirms

British National dies in Ukraine, Foreign Office confirms

Just Stop Oil protesters guilty of conspiring to cause public nuisance at Silverstone British GP

Just Stop Oil guilty over British GP track invasion - watch protest

Volunteers from the Blackburn UK Trust handed over the 75 packs to staff at Pinderfields Hospital on Monday, January 23.

Blackburn charity donates ‘baby loss packs’ for bereaved parents

A dead 12ft whale was washed up on the banks of a British river last week.

Huge dead whale found washed up British river bank

Andrew Bagshaw, 48, and Christopher Parry, 28, have gone missing in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Two British men who volunteered in Ukraine go missing

A walrus called Thor was spotted having a rest at Scarborough Harbour ahead of the New Year

Walrus pays a visit to Scarborough harbour en route to the Arctic

Father Jonathan Bish and parishioner, Carol Lunn.

Outwood Parish Church seek after school club volunteers

Meet some of the volunteers at Trussell Trust food banks in the UK

April Jones went missing in October 2012 - her body was never found.

Mystery of April Jones as Channel 4 documentary revisits murder

Daryl Crossland (r), with Rachel Warren, Mathew Varley and the hampers put together by the staff at RF-Smart

Volunteers have been packing hampers for Wakefield Christmas Hamper Appeal

Crates of food at a Trussell Trust food bank (Photo: Trussell Trust)

Trussell Trust foodbanks need people to donate these items

Flossie, pictured here with new owner Vicki, has been named the world’s oldest cat by the Guiness Book of World Records.

UK cat Flossie officially named world’s oldest moggie

Lindsey Stockton (far right, holding framed document) with food bank colleagues

National World campaign: A day in the life of a Trussell Trust worker

Crates of food at a Trussell Trust food bank (Photo: Trussell Trust)

National World launch Trussell Trust winter fundraiser