volunteering

The people holding communities together

Volunteer Voices

This project exists because volunteering is everywhere, but the people behind it are rarely seen. Across communities, volunteers give their time quietly and consistently, often without recognition and sometimes without realising the impact they’re having themselves.

Volunteer Voices brings together photography and first-person storytelling to listen to the people who keep things going — in food banks, youth groups, heritage spaces, emergency response, community projects, and countless other roles. The focus isn’t on praise or hero narratives, but on honesty: why people volunteer, what it gives them, and what it costs.

The project shows volunteering not as an extra or a nice-to-have, but as part of our social infrastructure. These stories reveal how volunteering shapes confidence, connection, purpose, and belonging — and what would be missing if it stopped.

This is a project about ordinary people doing essential work, and finally being heard.

Voices That Give Back

The Shout Volunteering book is now available to order, bringing together real stories from volunteers across Buckinghamshire and supporting the continued growth of the project.

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