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We’re excited to announce that Volunteering Matters is teaming up with the German social enterprise Volunteer Vision to make online volunteering easy for businesses across the UK.

We are delighted to announce that Volunteering Matters has been shortlisted for the ‘social care, advice and support’ category in the 2018 Charity Awards for our Grandmentors programme.

We were delighted to launch our Action Earth grant giving scheme today (25 April 2018) at Castlemilk Park in Glasgow. The scheme, which is funded by Scottish Natural Heritage, offers easy to access grants of up to £500 for environmental improvements across Scotland.

Volunteers from across Hackney came together at Pembury Community Centre to celebrate the launch of our Futures East project.

This month sees the launch of our brand new campaign to change young people’s perceptions of volunteering. Titled ‘ Revolution You ‘, our campaign aims to challenge preconceived notions of volunteering and encourage more young people to consider a gap year in the UK. 

To mark National Careers Week, The Petchey Academy sixth form students were joined by volunteers from professional services firm Deloitte for a day of activities designed to develop key employment skills.

Morris from Lambeth, a mentor on the Get Out Get Active (GOGA) Peer Support Project has won a prestigious Torch Trophy Trust award for Outstanding Contribution to Inclusivity.

Both Stockton Council and Wiltshire Council will be teaming up with Volunteering Matters to launch Grandmentors in their area, providing new inter-generational mentoring to young people leaving care. 

We’re delighted to announce that our work with and for young people across Ipswich has been given a boost this month with the arrival of a new youth volunteering project in the area – Positive Futures.

In this short film we heard from Emma Thomas-Hancock, Director of Volunteering Delivery, about how her work started with young people, how the volunteering landscape has changed and gave her volunteering predictions for the future.