volunteering

Beth Calverley and Yang Yu are part of the Neighbourly team / Photograph: Neighbourly

Neighbourly is a social network that connects charities and community projects with local businesses and individuals in the United Kingdom. We talked with Beth Calverley about her experience as part of this organisation.

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Roger Buch brings us a game to celebrate volunteering. Want to play?

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Volonteurope held its 25th Annual Conference in Nantes, focusing on the theme of “Apathy or Action: Young Europeans Take a Stand”.

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Local Trust team with the N for Nonprofit

What is Big Local and how does it work? Two members of the Local Trust team help us better understand this programme.

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World Youth Conference

The World Volunteer Conference 2016 will take place in Mexico City from 7 to 10 November.

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When I first started to volunteer at Big Local Revoelution just over two years ago, I was very timid and shy. Having social anxiety and bipolar disorder made me very isolated and I wouldn’t leave the house or even my bed for weeks at a time. From the first day I set foot in the Revoelution hub, I haven’t been away.

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This is a special year for Shelter, 50 years since we were founded in 1966. From day one, we have campaigned passionately to ensure that everyone in this country has a safe, secure, affordable home. And from day one, research has been central to this.

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Andy Curtis is Senior Research Officer at the Institute for Volunteering Research (UK)

The Senior Research Officer at IVR made a presentation on his ESV research at the Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference. He shared some insights with us.

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Andanças festival. Photo by Jose Manuel Costa

The festival, organised by the PédeXumbo association and where volunteering plays an important role, has been articulating cultural and generational exchanges through folk dances for two decades now.

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The Petra Camp, where Anna and the team from DSR were providing basic dental care / Photograph: DSR

Olga Margalef was in Lesvos when scores of refugees were arriving. Anna Sorio visited Petra, after the makeshift camps were being dismantled and the official military camps set up. What has changed?

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NCVO campaigns conference

Researchers, policy makers and practitioners will meet in Nottingham at the 2016 Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference on 8-9th September.

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Second-hand objects and volunteering help spaces that revert all their earning to support charitable causes.

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