Our Volunteers

StreetDoctors training is delivered by our movement of young healthcare volunteers (nurses, paramedics and doctors) who work in partnership with a wide variety of services where young people may be active: criminal justice services, schools, pupil referral units, youth, sports and community groups. 

Our volunteers deliver face-to-face emergency first-aid training to young people affected by violence across the UK. Our volunteers are based in 26 teams in 20 cities across the UK.

We empower young people to become lifesavers in their communities and give them the knowledge and confidence to make informed decisions about keeping themselves and others safe.

StreetDoctors relies on the passion and dedication of volunteers and partnerships to create the step-change required for resilient and positive communities.

Why does this training model work?

We champion peer-to-peer learning, young people teaching other young people. Seeing and spending time with a role model close in age strengthens our ambition for young people to see themselves as having the potential to be lifesavers in their own communities.

As trainee healthcare professionals, our volunteers have in-depth knowledge of the first-aid, and many see the effects of violence affecting people first-hand. Young people listen to them and respect the experience and knowledge of our trainers.

Our training offers mutual benefits: young people learn from our volunteer trainers, and our volunteer trainers learn skills from young people that they can take into their clinical practice to make them better healthcare professionals.

Training for our volunteers is kindly supported by Medics Academy