Did you know that today marks the start of Volunteer's Week?

It is official, the 1st to the 7th of June is volunteer’s week…so what you ask?

 

 

 

I have been chiming on for a number of years about the fantastic opportunities that volunteering can offer, as I believe a lot of people perceive the voluntary sector is mainly about working with the elderly, changing knickers and possibly delivering library books. If you too think this, you are wrong!

 

 

 

Volunteering can:-

 

 

 

Provide you with insights into a different culture


Give opportunities to meet new people


Mean you try your hand at something different


Use your natural skills and talents


Motivate you


Help you to learn something new


Make you get out of the house

 

Lots of clients I meet, for lots of different reasons are not ready, or not able to go back into the world of paid work, volunteering has really worked for them.

 

 

 

Recently I have had clients who have:-

 

 

 

Felled trees, built fences, catalogued a newt collection, set up a mentoring scheme in a prison, provided financial advice to those considering going into a residential home.

 

 

 

The benefits they have reaped from volunteering have been huge, both in terms of their personal fulfilment and also the addition to their CV’s.

 

 

 

If you are local to me in Cambridgeshire, the Peterborough Voluntary Centre is a really good place to start your journey into what opportunities there might be for you in volunteering.

 

 

 

For more information nationally on volunteering week