Let’s Shout About Volunteering!

Volunteers Week is fast approaching, when volunteering organisations the length and breadth of the land will be celebrating and thanking their volunteers for their hard work and kind deeds.  This is our chance to show our volunteers how much we appreciate them, and also to make people who don't volunteer realise what they're missing out on!

Here in Sheffield, our Volunteer Centre will be out on the streets thanking volunteers in city centre and raising awareness of the benefits and opportunities available to those people yet to start volunteering. Staff and volunteers will be manning a stand in the Moor on 1st June, so if you can why not pop along to say hi?

I am also aware that many of you are planning events yourselves, and am delighted to be attending some of them! If you are doing something, it would be great to hear about it so that I can include it either on press releases or on the Quality Time website (www.qualitytime.wordpress.com). Also, if you would like to give me a quote about volunteering at your organisation (what volunteers do and why they are so important), then drop it in an email to me and I might be able to include that too (c.walsh@vas.org.uk).

Finally, remember that you can download the Volunteers Week logo and get other bits and pieces (balloons etc) to help celebrations go with a swing at the Volunteers Week website: www.volunteersweek.org.uk.  I have a stash of posters and leaflets too - give me a shout if you'd like some!