Three volunteers from Glasgow have just completed several days working at the British Museum as part of the Wave of Friendship volunteer exchange programme. According to one of the volunteers, ‘Staff inspired us! We were blown away by the generosity of the people we met on our trip. It was far more than we [...]
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Free conference on diversifying volunteering
April 12th, 2010 · No Comments · News
Date: 1st June 2010
The National Network of Volunteer Involving Agencies is hosting a conference entitled ‘Changing the profile of Volunteering’. Speakers include Dame Elisabeth Hoodless DBE, Executive Director, CSV and Chair of NNVIA and Dr. Justin Davis Smith, Chief Executive, Volunteering England.
For more information, see the website: www.csv.org.uk/nnviaconference2010
Libraries Modernisation review: what role for volunteers?
March 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · For members, News
Around half of London libraries use volunteers*, in roles from leading reading groups to delivering books to housebound people. There’s even one library in Hackney, Woodberry Down Library, which is wholly volunteer-run.
But if proposals in the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Modernisation Review of Public Libraries are taken up, volunteers will become an [...]
Lobbying for a strong volunteering sector
March 17th, 2010 · No Comments · News
Unless you’ve been trekking in remote hills and valleys for the last six months, far from the British media, you cannot fail to be aware that a general election is looming. And an election is a crucial time to lobby candidates and MPs about the need for political support for the volunteering sector.
Volunteering is universally [...]
Election ‘Fever’ at Volunteering England Hustings
March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · News
More than 100 people gathered in Westminster, central London, for Volunteering England’s first ever hustings meeting on the 2nd March.
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