This article will discuss the important points to consider to maintain an effective therapeutic relationship when adapting art therapy to take place online. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, People Know How are in the process of adapting their Arts Therapies project to their blended model of both online and in-person services. The challenges present through online technologies can be alleviated by prioritising active communication, feedback, the establishment of boundaries, and the distribution of resources for young people. Consideration of these elements will allow for an effective Arts Therapies project at People Know How, to continually support the mental health and wellbeing of the young people during a particularly difficult time.People Know How experienced a large influx of volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article explores why this may have occurred and what charitable organisations can do to best retain these new volunteers. It also examines how the pandemic has changed who is willing and able to volunteer, and how volunteering can be a tool to promote wellbeing and mitigate impacts of isolation caused by the pandemic. People have found solace in volunteering which has helped them to retain and rebuild a sense of community, disrupted by the pandemic. This article considers how volunteering has changed during the pandemic and employs the evidence around why people volunteer and what they get out of it, to make suggestions to People Know How and other organisations for how best to utilise the large numbers of people willing to volunteer during the pandemic. This is so that this surge in desire to help can be maximised and preserved, even as the threat of the pandemic in Scotland subsides.
