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Featured Opportunities – Make Kit/Hackney Pirates/MMRC
Make Kit is a social enterprise based in Hackney that designs and distributes recipe kits from food hubs across the country. They need more volunteers to spread their way of healthy eating…
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Good Practice Top Tips
Keeping volunteers motivated and interested starts with good recruitment practices. Ensuring your volunteers’ skills and motivations match your organisation’s needs is key. If you do not, then a volunteer is likely to become…
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New project for grassroots volunteer-led groups – deadline 7th Aug
Volunteering for Hackney is a new project launched by Hackney Council to provide small grassroots community groups that operate at a very local level (no staff or maximum of one paid staff) with…
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Volunteer Achievement Awards from the Mayor of London
Now’s the time to nominate your volunteers for an award from the Mayor of London as part of the Team London 2017 Achievement Awards – nominations close on 21 July 2017. Volunteers…
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Book Launch with Our Place – What Makes Us Human? The story of a shared dream
Volunteer Centre Hackney and the “Our Place” project are delighted to welcome Dr Jean Louis Lamboray, founder of the…
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Want to get involved in your community but don’t know where to start?
Join Volunteer Centre Hackney for its Be The Difference Volunteer Fair & Volunteer For Hackney launch on Tuesday 20 June, 5-7pm at Hackney Museum, where you can meet local charities and discover how you give back to your…
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Volunteers Week 2017
During Volunteers Week and throughout June, we will be hosting a series of events and activities to celebrate the fantastic contribution that Hackney volunteers make to the borough. These include a Volunteer Managers…
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Greening Your Community
Is there a challenge or problem you want to solve in your local area? Are you worried about air pollution flooding, or your wellbeing? Perhaps you have an idea for greening your…
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Mental Health Awareness Week
On Tuesday 9th May 2017, as part of Mental Health Awareness week, our Step Up project delivered a workshop on ‘Understanding and Dealing with Stress’. The session focused on what our understanding…
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Volunteering hugely positive for unemployed Hackney residents
Volunteering is hugely positive for Hackney residents who are unemployed, and have mental health issues, we have found, through our Step Up project. Step Up supports people dealing with mental health issues…
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Calling Hackney community groups and organisations
Are you looking for an event or activity to involve your clients, service users or volunteers? Your organisation could get discount tickets for the summer’s biggest sporting event, and attend specific sessions of…
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Volunteer Managers Networking
Our Volunteer Managers Breakfast Club in March was a huge success, when we welcomed guest speaker Dominic Pinkney, CEO of Volunteer Centre Camden, who guided us through delivering a good ESV programme, and how to…
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Volunteer Fair for Busy People a Huge Success
The sun was shining, the samba band was out and Hackney was buzzing with positive vibes. A huge thanks to all the charities that attended VCH’s Volunteer Fair for Busy People on…
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Step Up – Time to Talk Day
Step Up celebrated Time to Talk Day by holding the first, and hopefully not the last, Step Up Bake Off. Time to Talk Day encourages people to talk openly about mental health and break down…
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Congratulations to VCH Volunteer Emma!
Last night saw the 2016 Team London Volunteering Awards , recognising and celebrating the diverse range of contributions made by Londoners who volunteer their time. Congratulations to all the organisations and individuals…
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Change Together
This national award-winning programme saw volunteers with experience of mental health issues raising awareness and challenging perceptions, through talking to members of the public about their experiences.
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Mayor of London Award Nominations
Nominate volunteers in Hackney for an award from the Mayor of London – closes 31 July – http://tinyurl.com/h4dcrrf
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Change Together
During 2014-15, we ran a Time to Change campaign, funded by Mind and Rethink Mental Illness to tackle mental health stigma across Hackney.
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Love Food Hate Waste
During 2012-2013, 150 volunteers were trained to become Food Waste Champions, to spread the message about food waste.
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Shelter Volunteer Team Support
Volunteers will work across the London HUB covering two of their sites 4 Tyssen Street, Hackney, and 4 Garrett Street, Islington. You will be involved with general admin, using Shelter’s Case management…
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Circle Collective Voluntary Recruitment Coordinator
Circle Collective was created to help unemployed young people develop the workplace skills they need to secure permanent employment. Circle Collective have an opportunity for a volunteer to lead the recruitment of…
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ReachOut Summer Programme Volunteers
The ReachOut Summer Programme runs daily in Hackney from Monday 15th August – Friday 26th August. It aims to raise educational attainment amongst young people and to help their transition from primary…
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Volunteering Matters Youth Leader
Volunteering Matters is a well-established charity that promotes community change through volunteering and social action. They are looking for Youth Leaders aged 18-25 to lead and create projects at various locations in…
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County Fair this Summer
The Our Place Egg-cell-ent Easter event was enjoyed by 20 local children at the New Kingshold estate.
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