University of Dundee Student Volunteer Organisation of the Year Award

This award is a chance for you to nominate a great organisation for University of Dundee students to volunteer for, and in turn for us to showcase the outstanding work they do

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This award is a chance for you to nominate a great organisation for University of Dundee students to volunteer for, and in turn, for us to showcase the outstanding work they do.

Nominations for this years' award will open soon

Two people are presented an award, standing in front of a UoD crested banner.

This year we were delighted to announce that Girlguiding Scotland became our 2023 Student Volunteering Organisation of the Year!

Nominated by second year Molecular Biology student Katie, Girlguiding Scotland is Scotland’s largest youth organisation completely dedicated to girls and aims to inspire them through fun, friendship, challenge and adventure, all made possible thanks to a network of more than 9,000 volunteers. If you would like to find out more, or sign up to volunteer, please visit the Girlguiding Scotland website.

Read our story about volunteering with Girlguiding Scotland

Past winners

2022 - Roxburghe House

Iain Gillespie, Principal of University of Dundee standing in front of the university logo with a group of volunteers

Roxburghe House is a purpose-built unit in the grounds of Royal Victoria Hospital which offers specialist palliative care to patients with a variety of life limiting illnesses.

If you would like to find out more, or sign up to volunteer, visit the NHS Tayside website.

NHS Tayside

2021 – The Nilupul Foundation

Nilupul Foundation logo

The Nilupul Foundation promote health and wellbeing by providing free mental health courses in Dundee for disadvantaged groups of people.

If you would like to find out more, or sign up to volunteer for the foundation, please visit their website

nilupul.org

2020 – The PatientBank Programme

A medical professional interacting with a patient

The UoD Patientbank Programme is vital to the teaching of our undergraduate medical, nursing and dental students.

The volunteers facilitate learning by portraying illness, injury and allowing students to focus on the development of skills in a safe and controlled learning environment before seeing hospital/clinical patients.

2019 – HMS Unicorn

The HMS Unicorn

HMS Unicorn has an active group of volunteers and work closely with various student groups including the University of Dundee and, in 2019, engaged with four Dundee University interns.

The opportunity for volunteers from lots of different backgrounds to work together on real projects and provide a very vital and genuine development opportunities for their museum is a key to their programme and success.