Take a look at what we can achieve, say voluntary organisations

Cancerkin is a breast cancer charity that focuses on patient wellbeing. This patient is enjoying a day of pampering and relaxation.
Photograph: Cancerkin

Young people dance the night away at Clive, the artsdepot's club night for 14- to 25-years olds with learning disabilities.
Photograph: artsdepot

The Catherine Bullen Foundation runs development projects in rural Namibia. In March 2009 the charity gifted 60 goats to San families in the Omaheke province. The San people are the original indigenous population of southern Africa. They have lost their traditional hunting grounds and now live in small settlements and rely on farmers for work. The goats will supplement their meagre incomes with milk, cheese and meat once the herd increases.
Photograph: Catherine Bullen Foundation

Competition winner. The children's hospital in Chernigov, northern Ukraine has 530 beds but it is desperately short of equipment. Camps for Children of Chernobyl's UK volunteers collected a shipping container of medical supplies and raised the money for two second-hand ambulances.
Photograph: Camps for Children of Chernobyl UK

SHARE Community, based in Wandsworth, provide vocational training and employment support to adults with disabilities to work and training. They run this horticulture project in the grounds of Springfield Hospital, Tooting.
Photograph: SHARE community

Envision students admire a mural about climate change that they created on the South Bank, London. Envision has teams in over 100 schools in London, Birmingham and Leeds. The teams support young people to take part in projects that benefit the local communities. Projects range from volunteering with the homeless to spreading the word about recycling.
Photograph: Envision

The Me2 Club in Wokingham partners young volunteers, mostly aged 16-23, with children like Callum Dale, aged 10. Callum is on the autistic spectrum. He tried to attend activities without support, but found them too difficult and dropped out.  He struggled with the social interaction of group situations and was getting frustrated and increasingly volatile at home. Now he attends Clay Creations every Saturday with his dedicated volunteer, Charles Moore-Kelly, and his mum says he is much happier.
Photograph: Me2 Club

Young people with mobility impairments get their first taste of surfing. Volunteers from Active 8 and Bude Surf Outreach Group made this dream holiday in North Cornwall possible.
Photograph: Active 8