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Tuesday May 16, 2006

B'OSCARS

Hi everyone finished uni hoorray!!!!!  No more exams for another year anyway woohooo

The most recent volunteering I did was the B'OSCARS was a real success with employees and children and young people.  The B’OSCARS was held to recognise and celebrate achievements of children and young people, theme originating from the OSCARS, presenting young people with certificates and an Easter egg, fitting in with holiday celebrations.  I personal thought the whole event went very well and that if possible should happen again with perhaps a bit more time to organise the event possible looking into the presentation of the awards making time for people to say something if they wish when receiving their award.  Possible happening again next year!!!!!!  Certificates were given out for volunteering, personal achievements group work etc....No limits were put on it.

The B'OSCARS was also held to make young people more aware of the young volunteers group 'THE PARTY!!!'  the group for Under 25's, I run with the volunteer development manager. Which will be gathering on Thursday evening hopefully!!!!lol  'THE PARTY!!!' may be changing its name though possible to 'The NEV' depends what happens at the next meeting.  NEV stands for North East Volunteers.  Which do you reckon sounds better??

If you want to find out more about volunteering for Barnardo's go to the website follow the link. http://www.barnardos.org.uk/work_with_us/volunteering.htm  It has volunteering throughout the UK on there not just the North East.

Right lets see if can get this posted this time....Lost it first time LoL

Posted by Moira ( 1:42 PM )
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