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Kettering Samaritans awarded £9,999 from National Lottery Community Fund

The Christmas Gala will be held in Desborough

Desborough Christmas Gala Night and light switch on to be held this week

A St John Ambulance volunteer on duty at a firework celebration.

Remember, remember first aid in November

Desborough Forties Day - file picture

Desborough Forties Festival needs you to sign up to day of nostalgia

BN - SGB-8621 Matt and Mollie from Barratt Homes presenting a cheque to Zoe Reynolds

Family support charity receives £1,500 donation from Northamptonshire homebuilde...

Guide dog Jessie, funded by the Northampton Guide Dogs group.

Fundraising group reaches £13,000 milestone for sight loss charity Guide Dogs

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

The Northamptonshire Search and Rescue team meet with Persimmon Homes at the Glenvale Park development in Wellingborough

Persimmon Homes give £1,000 boost to Northamptonshire Search and Rescue

Irchester WI went out litter picking as part of The Big Help Out

Volunteers in Irchester and Kettering get stuck in as part of The Big Help Out

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

Sally Field pictured with the late Paul O’Grady

Britain's oldest dog walker crowned coronation champion by RSPCA

Volunteers wash up at another community event in Kings Cliffe

Coming together for The Big Help Out for the coronation of King Charles III

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

AFC Rushden & Diamonds' Supporters Liaison Officer Tim Sams has been named as the Pitching In Volunteer of the Month

Diamonds volunteer Tim is recognised for his ‘selflessness and generosity’
The first face you see walking into AFC Rushden & Diamonds’ Hayden Road is invariably Pitching In Volunteer of the Month Tim Sams.

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

Great Doddington Club has re-opened after volunteers and villagers rallied together.

Volunteers in Great Doddington save beloved club from closure

The NHS has re-launched its Check in and Chat service for isolated patients

NHS re-launches volunteer service for lonely and isolated patients

Marion Turner-Hawes and Cllr Valerie Anslow

Tree campaigners vow to carry on the fight and say 'bats detected' in area

British National dies in Ukraine, Foreign Office confirms

British National dies in Ukraine, Foreign Office confirms

Dorothy Hunt hands over donations paid for with her pension

Kettering community shop collecting aid to send to victims of earthquake

Ten community centres in Corby face having their core funding cut in April - leaving many of them in peril. Image: Stephenson Way Community Centre is one of those under threat

TEN Corby community centres under threat after council threatens to cut funding

Northampton & Lamport Railway runs historic steam and diesel trains on the former Northampton-Market Harborough line

Volunteers' fund-raiser to fix bridge on old Northampton-Harborough train line

The Waendel Walk back in 2019

Volunteers, sponsors and participants needed for this year's Waendel Walk

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

The two British men, Andrew Bagshaw and Christopher Parry, were volunteering to help evacuate local residents.

Off The Streets NN - the community group launched in 2021

"If what we do changes just one person’s life that’s a massive achievement”

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

Cllr Helen Howell presents £680 to Wayne Fisher from Northants 4x4

Corby firework funds donation given to Northants 4x4 Response Team

Mary Watts (left) and Elizabeth Booth (right)

Warm space venues set up in Kettering as temperatures plummet

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

The Guide Dogs are looking for volunteers to become breeding dog holders

Guide Dogs launch Christmas appeal for more Northamptonshire volunteers

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

Rob Turner gets to work on the Embankment mural

A new mural is being created at Wellingborough Embankment

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

Dolphins spotted swimming alongside RNLI rescue boat

Santa Special events are always popular.

Full steam ahead of Northampton railway’s Santa Specials this Christmas

Could you be a steward volunteer?

NHS calls for more steward volunteers to boost community's immunity in North Nor...

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Higham Ferrers Tourism l-r Liz Brown, a former chairman, Liz Barnatt, the current chairman, Mayor Nigel Brown, former treasurer Simon Wiles and committee member Carol Fitzgerald.

Celebrating 20 years of Higham Ferrers tourism programme

Harborough-based Phoenix Saxophone Orchestra are holding a concert at Harrington Church

Northants Telegraph Sunday Extra: Orchestra's concert, a golf day and Indian tre...

You can join in the event this weekend

Community litter pick to give Kettering's streets a tidy

Members of Wellie Wombles clearing up on the Queensway

Volunteers get stuck in with clean-up on Wellingborough's Queensway estate

Tesco staff hand over their cheque to Friends of S&L 14

Corby's favourite steam engine to benefit from Tesco books boost

l-r Paul Hammond (coach) and Rohan Walters (reader). Rohan graduated from the Read Easy scheme in Wellingborough

Wellingborough adult literacy project recruiting more helpers and readers at ope...

Northants Search & Rescue members in action

Royal recognition for Northamptonshire Search and Rescue volunteers

Kettering, DIY SOS Big Build - mum Lindsey McAuley at the big reveal with Nick Knowles and DIY SOS team Sunday, 23rd January 2022

Kettering family's 'beautiful' DIY SOS Big Build on telly tonight

Work to clean Havelock Street

Kettering street given 'a bit of love' with huge clean-up

A market stall will be in Corby town centre from Friday, March 25 to collect medical supplies and baby food for people in Ukraine. Corby family Ivan and Julia Kovalevska with their daughter Anna, 3.

Corby market stall to collect supplies for Ukraine

The library will be open all February for groups and activities

Raunds library offering packed events programme despite threat of closure

Millie bombarded the DIY SOS team to come and help her friend

Kettering DIY SOS friend fulfils vow: 'I promised Shaun I would get it done'