'12 Days of Christmas Volunteering'

Christmas Spirit is at an all time high down at vinvovled Greenwich this week as we launch our '12 Days of Christmas Volunteering' event, offering you 12 volunteering opportunities to get stuck into this December! 
 

Each event is catered for young people 16-25years old and is sure to make you meet new people, learn new skills and make a real difference this Christmas...So what you think? Got a few hours to spare, why not get involved?!


Please contact: ypproject@volunteersgreenwich.co.uk  or mwvinvovled@googlemail.com  to find out any more information on each individual event!




And makesure you check back for updates of our progress!!

This Week at vinvolved Greenwich...

Busy busy down at the project this week! We have planning hubs, research meetings, journalist interest, free training and lots more opportunities!


Planning Hub
Firstly tonight something special is going to begin down at the project at our very own planning hub meeting, we're hoping to get a 100 day work plan going (not too much pressure then!) that will shape the way the project will head far into the next year. Everyone will have their say, we'll hopefulyl have loadsa great ideas and at the end we'll all hopefully know exactly what we want to achieve to make a change in our community!


If you would like to get involved with that its not to late, have a look at the details from this link and we could see you tonight!
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=187144989993&ref=ts


Research Meeting
We're going to get underway organising how we are going to undertake this good old research, this means looking for budding resaearchers, interviewers, and anyone looking to help us out down at the project. It's a great way to meet lots of new and interesting people and get their opinions on volunteering. We want to preset the research in exciting ways, using podcasts and video clips so it could be a good way to get into some new media!
Let us know if your interested?


Journalists and Training Galore!
We are hoping to get some press coverage over the next few months, so look out for us in the local papers v's and all! If you're still wondering about some of the free training going on we have DJ traning, Podcasting, WALTZ courses, Football coaching and a few more!
Get in touch to find out more!

Check out our Facebook Fan page for more details on recent goings on:

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=10381469571&topic=7227&start=90&hash=6476f3934b47e13877cda55d26cc9e1b#/pages/London-United-Kingdom/Vinvolved-Greenwich/164707828964?ref=ts

New Research Underway- Why do You Volunteer?

So, Clare here trying out my first officical Blog post about whats going on down at the ol' Volunteer Centre Greenwich (VCG- where our project is held).


Why do Young People in Greenwich Volunteer?
I've been involved in doing some research for the project looking at why young people might/might not volunteer and the current perceptions and attitudes that young people have of volunteering.


We had a meeting on Monday with the assitant director of VCG, about the prospect of doing this research and how it might help us all get a better insight into how to market volunteering to young people and get more and more invovled!


I'm currently in the process of writing up the notes I have made from case studies and completed research on this area, which have highlighted some interesting points (I'll try get some up here soon) and hopefully we can get some evidence of our own focused in Greenwich soon!


We are keen to create action groups to help get the research going. This will mean composing internet surveys, distributing them, holding disscussion groups and even creating podcasts and visual media to gain peoples views and opinions!


If we have any people who are could help us out it would be amazing, as its proving to be a big job! Give us an email or facebook message!

Keeping In Touch

Best ways to keep in touch:


1) FACEBOOK
Join our fan page to keep uptodate with recent events and goings on
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/pages/London-United-Kingdom/Vinvolved-Greenwich/164707828964?v=wall&ref=ts


2) TWITTER
See who were following and what were interested in at the moment
http://twitter.com/clarevinvolved


3) EMAIL
Email us at: ctvinvolved@gmail.com

NEW BLOG!!

Welcome to vinvolved Greenwich's new Blogging spot!


We hope to keep you updated with our latest events, plans, and general exciting stuff going on around the vinvolved Greenwich project!


Keep in touch to get free training dates, information on volunteering opportunities and the gossip on all our successes!


Clare@ Vinvolved Greenwich!