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Our long-running Action Earth scheme is celebrating the one millionth hour of volunteering time given by volunteers on its funded projects this decade! Seventy supporters raised £5,000 for Grandmentors, an inter-generational award-winning project of Volunteering Matters. Volunteering Matters’ award-winning Grandmentors featured in the Guardian. Honor’s inspirational support of Kai demonstrated the life-changing impact Grandmentors makes. 260 Volunteers from Volunteering Matters in partnership with Southend Borough Council celebrated ten years of turning around lives of families in the area. Volunteering Matters featured in an article about the appointment of the new Minister for Civil Society, Baroness Barran, in which we stated we looked forward to working with her to ensure that more people can change lives and transform communities trough volunteering. Volunteering Matters is instigating community volunteering to help make Leeswood in Wales more Age-Friendly. It is one of the charity’s Rural Wisdom projects designed to reduce isolation in rural areas. Volunteering Matters is this week’s players of People’s Postcode Lottery Charity of the Week. We feature on their website here. Every year thanks to support from players of People’s Postcode Lottery, tens of thousands of vulnerable and disadvantaged people in communities across England, Scotland and Wales benefit from the support of Volunteering Matters. Our partnership … Continued On Friday 28th June our Activ8 project won the Youth Work Project category at the Youth Excellence Awards 2019. Our volunteers and guests from projects running across Scotland were nominated to attend as a gesture of thanks for their commitment to their roles supporting vulnerable people in the community. LifeLines’, a volunteer-led programme which provides social activities for retired people in Brighton and Hove, celebrated its amazing volunteers at an awards reception to mark Volunteers’ Week. 30 Volunteers were treated to a tea at the Old Ship Hotel. Karen Bowlas, the project manager for ‘Lifelines’, said. “By celebrating our volunteers we are able to … Continued
Celebrating 1 million hours of volunteering in Scotland!
Grandmentors Golf day raises £5,000 for care leavers
The money will help to provide weekly support for young care leavers over a 6-12 month period, ensuring greater well-being, autonomy and career prospects.
Award-winning Grandmentors features in the Guardian
Volunteering Matters inspiring volunteers support families in turning around their lives
Volunteering Matters welcomes new Civil Society Minister
Intergenerational project in Wales imparting Rural Wisdom
Volunteering Matters chosen as Charity of the Week by players of People’s Postcode Lottery
Activ8 project wins at Youth Excellence Awards 2019
Volunteers honoured at the Royal Garden Party 2019
Impact of Volunteering Matters ‘LifeLines’ celebrated in Brighton