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Monday Jul 07, 2008
Hello from Swansea
Hi, my name is Catherine and I’m 23. I volunteer with Swansea Council for Voluntary Service as a newsletter editor. I’ve been volunteering with the organisation since last October and in this time I’ve helped to produce two editions. After graduating from university last summer, I decided to take a gap year and spend my time doing evening courses, volunteering and travelling. Volunteering is very important to me because I’m pursuing a career in journalism and it’s a great way to get some experience. It’s also a lot of fun!
I volunteer from home as well as going into the SCVS office. I often go to the office to meet with Felicitie Walls who is the Volunteer Support Officer. Felicitie tells me about upcoming events and new volunteering opportunities, and we discuss what’s going into the next edition. At home I often arrange the newsletter on the computer. One of the first things I did when I began volunteering was to create a new template for the newsletter. We don’t have any fancy programs available to us so we use Word.
When the newsletter is complete it’s sent out to Millennium Volunteers in Swansea. For those not familiar with the scheme, Millennium Volunteers is a nationwide programme that recognises the contributions of young people aged 16-24. Volunteers are awarded certificates for every 50, 100 and 200 hours they spend volunteering. The aim of our newsletter is to create a community amongst MVS in Swansea and keep them informed about new opportunities. We encourage MVs to contribute to the newsletter and often feature personal accounts of volunteers’ experiences.
At the moment I’m working on the summer edition of the newsletter. I think the newsletter has come a long way since I began volunteering. More MVS are getting involved and we recently acquired an illustrator and a new writer!
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( 9:10 AM )
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I am the Youth Volunteer Advisor for Swansea and created this media opportunity for Catherine in light of her interests and ambitions. I would like to take this opportunity to say a HUGE THANK YOU to Catherine for her involvement and dedication to the MV newsletter. The newsletter has massively improved since Catherine first began volunteering with SCVS.
As Catherine has now moved on to other things we are looking for a young volunteer from Swansea to help out with the newsletter to keep the youth-led approach going.
If you would like to be involved please contact me on felicitie_walls@scvs.org.uk
Happy Volunteering All!!!!
Posted by Felicitie Walls on November 24, 2008 at 11:15 AM GMT+00:00 #