Volunteer Driving And Vehicle Insurance

[Kingham]

Anyone considering the ‘call to arms’ and volunteering to drive to assist the vulnerable in these trying times, as you’re not receiving payment for your services, you should not require business insurance cover.

I’m registered with the RVS via NHS GoodSAM and with Third Sector Dumfries & Galloway, for volunteer driving around the Kirkcudbright area, using my own car and checked with Churchill Insurance who confirm they do not need to be made aware of voluntary work.

 

[andy63]

Yes Considered trying to help ..but to high a risk for me coming and going and mixing..
Mums 93 with dodgy lungs..not worth the risk..
I don't suppose that kayak will be wet for a while now..? I'd be out in mine as its only a short walk to the beach ..but I'm concerned folk would think I'm been irresponsible ...not the danger of mixing with anyone but just in case I had a problem and needed help?
Hope all is well and looking fwd to a paddle one day...?
Andy.

 

[carolyn]

Saga said the same about not needing business cover but you do have to notify them according to the NHSvolunteer website and GoodSam, there is no charge.

 

[David and Sally]

I have volunteered for Blood Bikes and am on their 'interested' list. I need to redo my IAM but the IAM are not doing tests right now. BB also deliver vital organs, and blood supplies to our local Air Ambulance. Hope they take up my offer.

 

[ctc]

Insurance is no problem until there is an accident.

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[SomeoneElse]

I regularly volunteer for my local canal charity. We've stop at the moment but this is their take on the use of private vehicles.

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[tacr2man]

NFU just made a note on the file no extra costs (First Responder )

 

[Paddywack]

Anyone considering the ‘call to arms’ and volunteering to drive to assist the vulnerable in these trying times, as you’re not receiving payment for your services, you should not require business insurance cover.

I’m registered with NHS GoodSAM and with Third Sector Dumfries & Galloway, for volunteer driving around the Kirkcudbright area, using my own car and checked with Churchill Insurance who confirm they do not need to be made aware of voluntary work.

I'd be a little wary of the GoodSam app and giving them any data, tiny company with two directors and £15,000 on the balance sheet. The app doesn't ask what skills you have?

How is this going to upscale and put people on the ground safely?

 

[two]

All insurance premiums should be reduced.
No one's going anywhere, & roads are no longer congested if you do.
Homes are not left unoccupied.

 

[Paddywack]

All insurance premiums should be reduced.
No one's going anywhere, & roads are no longer congested if you do.
Homes are not left unoccupied.

Yes it is a difficult time to be a burglar.


Anyone want some office chairs and a filing cabinet?

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[Louis]

Three Foster kids at home, and I'm on the list

 

[DuxDeluxe]

Anyone considering the ‘call to arms’ and volunteering to drive to assist the vulnerable in these trying times, as you’re not receiving payment for your services, you should not require business insurance cover.

I’m registered with NHS GoodSAM and with Third Sector Dumfries & Galloway, for volunteer driving around the Kirkcudbright area, using my own car and checked with Churchill Insurance who confirm they do not need to be made aware of voluntary work.

I volunteered as well to do driving as I also have a valid DBS cert

 

[Jev88]

I contacted my local pharmacy (as they have all my details already) and was told delivery drivers not currently the problem. Getting supplies TO them is their issue.

 

[carolyn]

I'd be a little wary of the GoodSam app and giving them any data, tiny company with two directors and £15,000 on the balance sheet. The app doesn't ask what skills you have?

How is this going to upscale and put people on the ground safely?

They are working with the Royal Voluntary Service if you go through the NHS volunteers link. I don’t think they are in it to make money. They set themselves up to get volunteers qualified in the use of defibrillators and the like to where they could be used, especially if you had your own. That sort of thing. I could be wrong of course.

 

[Kingham]

They are working with the Royal Voluntary Service if you go through the NHS volunteers link. I don’t think they are in it to make money. They set themselves up to get volunteers qualified in the use of defibrillators and the like to where they could be used, especially if you had your own. That sort of thing. I could be wrong of course.

Agreed, my application went in via the RVS site.

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[Kingham]

I volunteered as well to do driving as I also have a valid DBS cert

Likewise, the enhanced one I required to work with my local authority in the NE is still valid, so someone might as well benefit from it until my courses start back up.

 

[The Wino]

Our GP practice is a dispensing one we have volunteered as they asked on their website but expect to deliver on foot (lets hope it's not oxygen!!!!)

 

[Paddywack]

I'm pleased that the RVS is on top of things but I'm still unsure of the App, I have a suspicion that somewhere in Whitehall right now there's a civil servant trying to figure out what the hell to do with 500k volunteers....

I think there is a lot of media management going on and this is all part of creating a British-pluck myth, at best part, a morale boosting exercise? To help people feel less helpless and that there's something they can do?

Interesting that Dyson, who by the way didn't design the ventilator that was TP in Cambridge, won a manufacturing contract particularly when we didn't utilise existing supply when offered.

Nantwich firm blasts Dept of Health after offering 5,000 ventilators

A Nantwich firm which helped source thousands of critical ventilators for COVID-19 patients, hit out at Department of Health after it delayed on the deal too long and lost them.

thenantwichnews.co.uk

I think it is all PR rather than action.

 

[The Wino]

I do wonder if there really is the capability to cut the red tape and get on with things. Looks like we have lost a lot of ventilators that were ready in exchange for a possibility of some later.....why? Having seen the speed of NHS management I'm not surprised but saddened.