Positive: Teenager who had ASBO revoked is to be Ambassador At the beginning of the year, Jake Warburton-Jones was hit with an Asbo – but after turning his life around, he has been announced as an Ambassador for the Special Olympics. The 17 year old became only the second person in Leicester to have the order wiped [...] [...more]
16 – 25yrs? Time to spare? Interested in Media? FREE TRAINING A new and exciting opportunity for a team of young people to work together to: • Design a Vinvolved volunteering website • Report on Vinvolved projects & events • Provide news coverage via a citizen blog • Upload pictures and [...] [...more]
Voluntary Action Leicester is to host the Leicester Volunteering Convention on Wednesday 9th July from 3.30pm – 8pm. The event will include a range of workshops and a talk by specialist speaker Simon Richards on “The National Profile of Volunteering”. Please download the application form to register your place. [...more]
Volunteers required for RaW’s Family Storytelling Festival Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th July 2008 at The Abbey Park, Leicester Project Summary BBC RaW is the BBC’s biggest adult literacy campaign. It aims to reach the 12 million adults in the UK who struggle with reading and writing. We offer a range of extensive FREE resources and a website, all [...] [...more]
Dimple Patel, the CSV Action Producer at BBC Leicester said: “We are looking for an incredible young person aged 16 – 25, to volunteer full-time from July for up to a year, to lead the Agents 4 Change youth volunteering project.” This is a fantastic opportunity to develop skills, achieve things and use the media to [...] [...more]
do-it.org.uk was launched in 2001 with the first, and still the only, national database of volunteering opportunities in the UK. do-it.org.uk is part of the registered charity YouthNet, a non-profit-making organisation. They do not charge people to use the database as they believe that volunteering should be free to the user and so make a small charge [...] [...more]
The Volunteering Strategy for the Special Olympics in July 09 was launched on Monday at Voluntary Action Leicester. The Games taking place in Leicester for the second time will require over 1,500 volunteers and the 6 day event will see competitors from all across Great Britain converge on the City to take part in a variety [...] [...more]
VAL’s Active Citizenship Encouragement Project ACE has been busy training a group of peer educators in many areas such as drugs awareness, sex and relationships, environmental awareness and we are now proud to announce that the ACE Educators are now delivering Hear by Right workshops for young people aged 7-13years old. The young people aged [...] [...more]
Please find below a detailed listing of events taking place across Leicester & Leicestershire during Volunteers’ Week next week: Volunteers’ Week 2008 - Leicestershire Events Sunday 1st June Monday 2nd June Volunteers of the Future Conference, Coalville Special Olympics 2009 Volunteering Strategy Launch, Leicester Tuesday 3rd June Wednesday 4th June Strawberry Cream Tea, Huncote Be Great – Volunteer, Leicester Celebrating Volunteering Event, Hinckley Thursday [...] [...more]
There is an exciting new volunteering project called ‘Breaking down Barriers’. There are 100s of Volunteering opportunities already available, or we can try and help find one that could be just right for you within your own community. Volunteering is great stepping stone, especially if your thinking of getting back into employment would like more training or [...] [...more]
