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Find out what's going on in Volunteering and in the Borough. Click on any of the news items below. Do you have news you would like to share? Please get in contact with the Volunteer Centre. We will be more than happy to publish your news items here and in our newsletters. Call us now on 020 8960 3722 or email us.
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Summer Speed Dating Garden Party 20...
Summer Speed Dating Garden Party 2010Kensington and Chelsea Voluntary Centre and Kensington and Chelsea Social Council hosted a Summer Speed Dating Garden Party on Friday 23th July. Attended by many friends and families of the residents and local supporters, including Cllr James Husband, the afternoon was a great success this year’s party was unique. There was s...
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The Resettlement Program
The Resettlement Program is dealing with new organisations in order to secure new voluntary positions for offenders and ex offenders. We are also looking at training programs for Bricklaying, Plastering and Gas Fitters.Organizations are welcome to help us to promote good practice and training programs.Offenders and ex offenders participating in the Resettlement Progra...
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Volunteer Event Awards 2010
Awards 2010 Every year Kensington and Chelsea Volunteer Centre aim to get its volunteers together at social events. We do this so we are able to say thank you for all the work that they do. It is also an opportunity for volunteers to share experiences and meet new people.Volunteers Week 2010 &nb...
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Shared coordinator role feasability...
Feedback on the Feasibility Study.Over the last two months, a study has been conducted to explore the feasibility of offering volunteer coordination support to organisations in Kensington & Chelsea to supplement existing services. Seventeen busy volunteer coordinators offered a fascinating insight into their work, achievements, challenges and views on the extent t...
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Project Update: Stepping Stones
It is an exciting time at the Stepping Stones Project. The team has grown and they have been joined by new Stepping Stones Officer Lynda Nunn and overseas student Anders Erickson. As ambassadors for the project, Lynda and Anders are out-and-about spreading the word on the work of the Stepping Stones Project, raising awareness in the community and meeting with org...
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Improve your Management Skills
Set yourself apart from the crowd, seize this opportunity and get yourself new skills. Here are three different training opportunities available to Volunteer Manager, so make most of them! 1) Capacity Builders – Strand C: Volunteer Management Program Effective management skills can solve many problems, strengthen your competencies, overcome challenges and hel...
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Try out something new, volunteer fo...
Calling all the Organizations !!! Would anyone out there be willing to have a TASTER DAY- giving potential volunteers an opportunity to learn about your organization.Taster Day(s)Kensington and Chelsea Voluntary Centre would like to set up taster’s days within organisations for potential volunteers to come along and experience a day of voluntary work.All the or...
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New Vetting and Barring Scheme
New Vetting and Barring Scheme The coalition government has announced that it is suspending the new Vetting and Barring Scheme (originally due for launch on 26th July) pending a review into its scope and the ISA will limit its activity to maintaining banned lists of individuals who are barred from working with vulnerable groups.The Government has indicate...
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6th Form Students Summer Holiday
6th Form Students With so many young people around over the holiday periods, specially over this summer, why not think ahead to see if you can involve more young volunteers with your organisation this year.For example, are there any new volunteering opportunities that you could develop specifically for the holiday period? Or do you already have a short-term project p...
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Volunteer photography exhibition go...
Following a brief but well received show in the Tabernacle, our photography exhibition is moving to the GLA before it begins a tour of London Libraries and other community spaces. The exhibition aims to make volunteering more accessible to all kinds of people. The portraits include people from all walks of life doing all kinds of things and each portrait is accompani...
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Celebrating 40 years of volunteerin...
Volunteer Centre Kensington and Chelsea has been helping people to volunteer in London since 1969. Find out how we got started and what we are doing to celebrate our 40th anniversary. Back in the 1960’s Notting Hill was a hive of social activity. After enduring years of substandard housing, poverty and following race riots, people had started taking action them...
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Read about our founder, the UN offi...
Find out about Lady Goodman, Volunteer Centre, Kensington and Chelsea’s founder, what drove her to establish the Volunteer Centre along with her other great personal achievements. In 1967, Anstice Goodman became interested in channeling the skills of volunteer workers to the needs of their area. In 1969 she persuaded organisations in Kensington and Chelse...
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Partnership with Sainsbury's Ladbro...
Volunteer Centre Kensington & Chelsea are delighted to announce that they have been chosen as the local charity partner for Sainsbury's Ladbroke Grove for 2010-11. The partnership starts in July 2010 and runs for twelve months, with the aim of raising funds for the Volunteer Centre and helping Sainsbury's colleagues learn more about their customers' community.&nb...
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Volunteer Charter goes London wide!...
REMEMBER THE VOLUNTEER CHARTER?In 2007 the Volunteer Centre and local charities got together and worked out a minimum set of standards for organisations working with volunteers to follow. Well, the charter is being further developed with the aim of rolling out a set of standards across all of London. In 2007 we agreed on 10 priorities that Volunteer Coordinators shou...
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Want to improve your Skills and yo...
Need to boost your Confidence and your Skills? Looking to improve your abilities? You might want to look into Nova New Opportunities. Nova can help you with:• Basic ICT Courses• Basic Math’s. Literacy and English Languages Classes• OCR and ITQ Qualifications• 1-1 Interviews and Personal Support• CVs, Job S...