Volunteering

Members lead on the College's mission to "transform child health through knowledge, innovation and expertise" through a range of volunteering. Read about their work in these blogs, or see how you can get involved.

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The Princess Royal visits the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to celebrate 10th milestone birthday

29 July 2025

Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal visited �� headquarters in London on 24 July to join the 10th birthday celebrations of their children, young people and families network of the College known as �� &Us.

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Annual Impact Review 2024

We are delighted to share our review of 2024 across all operational areas, including the devolved nations and internationally. Hear what our senior leaders have to say, view our year in numbers or read about how our work in advocacy and engagement is helping shape the future of paediatric care.

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Engaging children and young people

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Our new Global Officer, Dr Arvind Shah

20 June 2025

Dr Arvind Shah (pictured) has been newly appointed as our Global Officer, working closely with the staff team and clinical volunteers to help deliver our global child health programmes. Arvind replaces Dr Sue Broster.

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Dr Thomas Bourke is the new �� Officer for Ireland

25 March 2025

Dr Bourke begins his role this month and joins the College Council in May 2025. He looks forward to advocating for the needs and rights of all children and young people in Ireland.

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In memory of Dr Jean Bowyer

7 February 2025

Dr Jean Bowyer, a devoted paediatrician and passionate advocate for global child health, passed away peacefully on 30 January 2025. Her remarkable career touched countless lives across the world.

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Global Links programme - volunteering opportunities

The success of our work relies heavily on fostering partnerships between clinicians in high, middle and low income countries. We recruit and prepare doctors, nurses and midwives who help us in all aspects of programme delivery, usually through longer-term placements overseas in the Global Links prog...

Global child health

Volunteering

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�� announces new Assistant Registrar

2 August 2024

We are delighted to announce Dr Bhanu Williams as our new Assistant Registrar, a role she will commence from 24 August 2024.

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Welcoming new members and looking ahead - President’s update

24 May 2024

Steve reflects on the recent Membership Ceremony in Manchester where members, fellows, family and friends gathered to celebrate new paediatricians. There is also information on all the ways to get involved at the College and an update on the recently announced UK General Election.

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EDI Member and volunteer data

We are committed to reporting on data collected through our diversity monitoring form on an annual basis. This page provides a snapshot of member, volunteer and senior volunteer data on seven protected characteristics, as well as caring responsibilities. We have also included demographic data of RCP...

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Equality, diversity and inclusion

Volunteering

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Greetings from Kerala - President's blog

26 January 2024

Camilla writes her latest message from the 61st annual conference of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics, where she has led on talks on empowering women in child health leadership roles. There's been a full day of talks on vaccines and this is a good reminder for all members to "Think measles". Plus, a...