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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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Central Government Review highlight...
In her recent review of Volunteering across the Criminal Justice System, Baroness Julia Neuberger referred to our Resettlement Scheme to illustrate the positive effect that volunteering can have on offenders. She went on to say: ‘the Volunteer Centre Kensington and Chelsea Resettlement Scheme demonstrates clearly the rehabilitative effect volunteering ...
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Get ready for the new Vetting and B...
The new scheme aims to check all volunteers and staff who undertake regulated activities with vulnerable groups. It becomes mandatory from November 2010 and will affect your organisation if the work you carry out is regulated by the new rules. The new scheme includes an additional list - the Independent Safeguarding Authority register- that individuals must register ...
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Could you use a volunteer coordinat...
Are you having difficulty supporting all your volunteers? Could you use the support of a volunteer coordinator? What if we were able to provide someone to carry out this role in your organisation? We are looking at developing a new project that would see us providing Volunteer Coordinator support for local organisations. In this way we hope to he...
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What can you do to help the Haiti d...
At the moment the major charities are asking for donations and their fundraising departments are keen for people to do street collections or organise events to raise funds. Very soon there will be a slew of events to attend. Unicef: have resources that you can download at www.unicef.org.uk/emergencyfundraising Which includes posters and bucket wraps as well...
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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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Urgent Volunteering Opportunities
Admin with the Metropolitan Police Can you run their custody stores, making sure they never run out of the essentials and also lend some admin support to their senior managers? They are keen to recruit some volunteers for this role before mid April. Patient Support Volunteers Volunteers needed to provide information, refreshments and support to patients and t...
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Not sure about volunteering? Try ou...
Volunteer Centre Kensington and Chelsea has a brand new volunteer programme developed to help you back into employment. Does this sound like something you might be interested in?It is supported by the London Development Agency and the Learning and Skills Council and aims to provide people with a range of skills to help them back into work. This is achieved throu...
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Last chance to join our project and...
FINAL CALL FOR CHARITIES TO JOIN PROJECT AND BENEFIT FROM PROFESSIONAL VOLUNTEERS. We are looking for additional charities to join our City Skill Exchange project, contact us before December the 11th if you would like to find out more. The City Skill Project offers a chance to take on a senior professional as a volunteer on your latest project or for something...
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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...