Volunteers manning vital front-line services are seeing their health and well-being put at risk as they struggle to provide help amid the cost of living crisis, it has been warned.
Volunteers provide everything from access to food, hospital transport and practical help to the aged and vulnerable. They are often the vital sympathetic ear for troubles.
But as West Lothian’s Third Sector celebrated its hundreds of supporters during Volunteer Week it was warned that the cost of living crisis could threaten the pool of willing support coming forward.
