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“How to” spend more time as a family
Families around the nation are being encouraged to volunteer together to benefit the local community for part of CSV Make a Difference Day, the UK’s biggest single day of volunteering on Saturday 30 October.
Students Opt for UK Gap Years over Limited Uni Places
This year record numbers of students will be denied a place at University due to the lack of places and face a difficult jobs market. Many students are choosing a Gap Year in the UK as a constructive alternative to holidaying in the sun or fruitlessly staying at home on the dole.
Brits Need More Family Time – survey reveals
New independent research conducted by ICM and commissioned by the CSV Make a Difference Day campaign reveals that up to half of people want to spend more time with their family. (3rd August 2010)
The independent research undertaken by ICM (1) shows we are a nation prevented from spending as much time with our families as we’d like. 41% of people aged 11 years plus feel they don’t spend enough time with their nearest and dearest.
Social enterprise is praised for work in digital switchover community outreach programme
On Tuesday 6 July, Dianne Jeffrey, Chair of Digital Outreach Limited, joined Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries (joint Minister with Department for Business, Innovation and Skills), and David Scott, Chief Executive of Digital UK, at a special event held in London’s Southbank Centre to mark the progress made towards the UK’s switch to digital TV.
Digital Outreach (DOL) was founded in 2007 by organisations that include UK volunteering charity, CSV.
Lord Freud helps troubled teens get backing of older people
A ground breaking project designed to help troubled teenagers avoid turning to crime and designed to improve their prospects in life is to be launched by Lord Freud and the volunteering charity CSV (Monday 14th June 2010) . The launch at The House of Lords will be attended by Iain Duncan Smith, the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
“Big Society” volunteering charity wins top award as survey shows gap between attitudes towards volunteering improving society and those prepared to volunteer themselves
Call for Nationwide Community Service stepped up as Dame Elisabeth’s retirement announced
Dame Elisabeth Hoodless who has been dubbed as both ‘the Mother of Volunteers’ and more recently, ‘The mother of Big Society’ has announced her determination to see nationwide community service become reality as the charity announces the search for her successor when she retires next February 2011.
Elisabeth was CSV’s first ever employee 47 years ago but currently leads a charity that has involved more than 1 million volunteers and employs 700 staff throughout the UK.
Charity Boards Challenged to Harness Volunteer Energy
A ground breaking free conference, ‘Changing the Profile of Volunteering’, on 1 June brings together key voices across the charity sector to share how organisations can overcome barriers to volunteering and give proper recognition to the positive impact of volunteers.
The event draws together two years reviewing the roles of volunteers and the support they are offered, and the findings of regional Policy Action Community Teams (PACTs) charged with finding the best ways to target people who are under represented in volunteer roles.
Child Protection Project Nominated for National Award
A pioneering project in which volunteers provide support to disadvantaged families with children suffering from abuse and neglect, has been nominated for a major national prize at The Charity Awards 2010 - the UK charity sector’s most prestigious awards scheme. (Issued by the Charity Awards)