Give up your time and volunteer.

That’s the message from the chairman of Oxfordshire Community and Voluntary Action (OCVA), who has called on those who don’t currently volunteer to give it a go.

It comes as the Oxford Mail winds up its coverage of Oxfordshire’s award-winning volunteers in its Volunteer Voice column.

More than 40 of the county’s volunteers were rewarded for their efforts at an OCVA ceremony at Oxford Town Hall in October.

Each was handed a special volunteer award.

OCVA chairman Alison Baxter said: “It is obvious that there is a really vibrant volunteering community in Oxfordshire.

“We know that nearly a third of Oxfordshire residents already volunteer regularly, but we think that there may be people out there who haven’t thought about it or think it might not be for them.

“We would encourage them to visit our website and see if there is something that they can do.”

For the past two months the Oxford Mail has been profiling some of the county’s volunteers.

Our regular column has now come to an end but we were unable to get in touch with a number of them.

They include Richard Day, who volunteers for homelessness hostel Simon House; Lex Francis who volunteers for community cohesion project Spurgeons; Joyce Howe who works with the National Organisation of the Widowed; John Hughes who volunteers with loneliness charity The Archway Foundation; Hilary Miles who volunteers with The Roundabout Centre; Henrietta Platman who volunteers with learning disability charity MacIntyre; Philippa Seymour, who volunteers for Oxford Homeless Pathways; Cindy Shannon who volunteers with mental health charity Guideposts Trust; Sally Barlow who volunteers with old age charity WRVS; and David Denny who volunteers with brain tumour support charity Clowns in the Sky.

These 10 volunteers represent less than a quarter of the 42 who were given an award by OCVA for their work.

They have done work as diverse as teaching the homeless to use the internet, starting a community garden and organising holidays for the widowed.

The others have all been featured in our pages over the past weeks.

Ms Baxter said: “If people have been following the profiles in the Oxford Mail it will help to build up a picture of what people are doing and maybe inspire them.”

OCVA is the umbrella body for the county’s community and voluntary sector. Visit their website at oxnet.org.uk for more information.