In Pictures: The Covid-19 volunteers supporting front-line NHS staff
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Across England an army of volunteers is supporting the NHS in the battle against Covid-19. The BBC met some of them to find out why they stepped forward.
image caption"It is fun and you get to meet loads of new people and you get to see the goodness in people," says Izaak De May, an 18-year-old Ipswich student volunteer at the town's hospital. Mr De May, who is now considering a future working within the NHS, says: "It is really rewarding and you know you're doing something right."
image caption"It is refreshing and it feels good to be helping," says Rachel Laurence, who volunteers at the vaccination clinic in Colchester. A full-time worker during the week, she decided to volunteer at weekends because she was "at home, bored" and felt she needed to do something.