Fiona Liddell

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Helpforce Wales Manager

Fiona is Helpforce Manager, responsible for the Helpforce initiative in Wales, which aims to develop the potential of volunteering within health and social care services. 

She has worked within the volunteering team at WCVA since 2003 in a variety of roles. Significant projects include the launch of the Wales Volunteer of the Year Awards in 2004, the development of Investing in Volunteers in Wales, managing the Volunteering Spirit Wales project on event volunteering and the development of the volunteering-wales website. 

Previously Fiona undertook postgraduate research in nutrition and worked in Health Promotion with the NHS. She has experience in International Development and has, jointly with her husband, run a training and retreat centre in mid Wales. As a keen volunteer herself Fiona has been a school governor, helped at a community cafe in the Rhondda and at conversation drop in sessions for asylum seekers and is a regular steward at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff.

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Published: 19/05/23

Allies not experts: the case for non-professional care

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Published: 24/04/23

Resourcing volunteering for community resilience

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Published: 11/04/23

Volunteering in bite sized actions

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Published: 16/03/23

A regional approach to developing volunteering

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Published: 20/12/22

Reimagining social care

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Published: 19/12/22

Creating volunteer to career pathways

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Published: 06/12/22

Volunteers ready to help in an emergency

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Published: 14/09/22

Engaging with care home residents

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Published: 13/09/22

Learning from social care volunteering with older people

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Published: 11/03/22

Living with COVID-19: risks, rights and volunteers

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Published: 08/03/22

Care homes and volunteering

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Published: 21/01/22

Reconnect- reaching out to keep in touch in Merthyr

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Published: 21/01/22

Case study: End of Life Companion

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Published: 11/11/21

Are volunteers part of the workforce?

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Published: 28/10/21

Companion volunteers in end of life care

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Published: 20/08/21

Framework to ‘hardwire’ volunteering into health and social care

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Published: 14/06/21

Being rock – volunteers’ role in end of life care

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Published: 24/03/21

Volunteer passports – do we need them?

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Published: 05/11/20

Building on strong foundations: the volunteer response to the pandemic in Wales

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Published: 28/10/20

How do we maximise the impact of volunteering post-pandemic?

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Published: 29/07/20

Getting ready to re-start volunteering

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Published: 09/04/20

What next: the volunteer response to COVID-19

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Published: 12/02/20

Volunteering and workplace relationships

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Published: 03/11/19

Can volunteering help to achieve better health and care?

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Published: 20/08/19

Volunteering – implications for the health and social care workforce strategy

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Published: 29/07/19

Introducing a revised volunteering charter

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Published: 11/06/19

Cultivating volunteering innovation

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Published: 10/05/19

Time to celebrate

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Published: 15/06/18

New website helps you get into volunteering

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