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The group meets every Thursday

Leighton Buzzard bumps and babies group looking for volunteers

A St John Ambulance volunteer at a fireworks display

Remember, remember first aid in November

.In the UK, it is estimated that one in four women and one in six men will be affected by domestic abuse. FIle picture.

Survivors of domestic abuse wanted to help shape council's services

More than 20,000 vehicles travel through Hockliffe village a day - Photo Google Maps

Hockliffe traffic chaos is making us ill says council

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

Louis the Jack Russell with his owner after being rescued

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

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

Volunteers hard at work on Dunstable Downs

Whipsnade’s famous White Lion landmark gets a clean-up thanks to volunteers

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

The Age UK shop in Leighton Buzzard

Join the Coronation Big Help Out in Leighton Buzzard

Sally Field pictured with the late Paul O’Grady

Britain's oldest dog walker crowned coronation champion by RSPCA

Britain's oldest RSPCA volunteer is still taking dogs for walks, aged 104 and has been given a special coronation award by the charity. 

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

Children auditioning for The Wiz

Budding stars audition for Wizard of Oz inspired production coming to Waterside

Susan Lousada, the HM Lord-Lieutenant for Bedfordshire cutting the special cake made by Sarah Miceli from "For Heaven's Cake"

Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire opens first ever repair cafe in Leighton Buzzard

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

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

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

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

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

EasyJet is bringing its Fearless Flyer course back to Gatwick Airport on Sunday, November 27, to help nervous flyers take control and overcome their fears. Picture by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images

Passenger dies during flight between Cyprus and London

easyJet issued a statement as a passenger dies en-route to the UK - “Staff did all possible”.

The Biggleswade engagement event. Image: CBC.

Central Beds Council wants you to sign up as a 'waste reduction volunteer'

Dolphins spotted in UK waters as pod swim happily alongside RNLI boat - watch video taken of sighting

Dolphins spotted swimming alongside RNLI rescue boat

Citizens Advice Leighton-Linslade

Leighton-Linslade Citizens Advice thanks volunteers

Hospice at Home Volunteers

Hospice at Home Volunteers in Leighton Buzzard need you

Volunteers have been working hard at the warehouse

The Leighton Buzzard charity helping disadvantaged children have a Christmas

Age UK, Leighton Buzzard. Photo: Google Maps.

Age UK Leighton Buzzard shop appealing for new volunteers to join the team

Freemasons Gary Albert and Jez Dodd also volunteered

Volunteers proud to play their part as Leighton Buzzard's Covid vaccination cent...

You could be paid £4,500 to contract Covid as part of a new research project (Photo: Shutterstock)

You could be paid £4,500 to contract Covid as part of a new research project

The new study will be conducted on over 800 participants (Photo: Jane Barlow - Pool/Getty Images)

A trial to confirm if Covid vaccine types can be mixed is underway - what we kno...

Could you volunteer to help with the roll-out of the vaccine?

Volunteers wanted to help with Covid-19 vaccination programme in Leighton Buzzar...

Sikh communities and a football team came together to feed stranded Dover lorry ...

Operation Christmas Child (C) Esther Jolliffe (Jersey Road PR)

Bedfordshire opens drop off sites for Christmas shoebox project

Liz Searle, HM Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire Mr Robert Voss CBE, and HM Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, Mrs Helen Nellis

HM Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire presents The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Serv...

Video screenshot

Video highlights community spirit and enthusiasm as hundreds in Leighton Buzzard...

Autism Bedfordshire has been awarded the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service

Autism Bedfordshire awarded the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service

Leighton Buzzard Market on March 28 when only food stalls operated. Stalls could be set up to face the street to allow food traders to return again

Talks at an early stage on 'complex' challenge of how to safely reopen Leighton ...

Student nurses from the University of Bedfordshire on placement

University of Bedfordshire provides materials to make full face visors
Volunteers have been making thousands of visors to help with PPE supplies

This charity is looking for volunteers to befriend the elderly over the phone

Cllr Victoria Harvey and Darren Eastgate with deliveries

Volunteers support Leighton Buzzard market trader in supplying residents with fr...

Could you volunteer to help? (Photo: Shutterstock)

The government wants 250,000 volunteers to help the NHS and the vulnerable - her...

As cases of coronavirus in the UK continue to rise, it is heartwarming to see communities coming together to look out for their most vulnerable members (Photo: Shutterstock)

Communities are forming ‘mutual aid groups’ to help people in need during the co...

People in China are abandoning their pets over coronavirus fears

The volunteers

Volunteers praised for working in freezing cold to help Leighton-Linslade reside...

Dave Edwards. Photo by Joanna Cross

Inspirational volunteers recognised at awards

L-R: volunteers Jane Gray, Sally Kempster and Christine Henry with assistant manager Catt Downs.

Age UK celebrate Volunteers' Week - could you join the team?

Leighton Linslade volunteers who took part in the Great British Spring Clean weekend with some of the 92 bags of rubbish collected

Leighton volunteers spring into cleaning

Volunteers take to the streets, but won't '˜replace police'