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Friday Mar 20, 2009

My commitments

What are my volunteering commitments? I mainly volunteer within the social welfare law stream as I am currently doing a degree in Law. My first volunteering commitment within this sector was with Independent Academic Research Studies (IARS), who is a not- for- profit youth think tank that empower young people (16 -25) to change social policy and practice. They do this by providing young people with training in research and human rights. With this training, young participants are able to take part in stages or all of their research projects. The current project that they are work on is Young People and Social Cohesion which looks at why most young people do not want to integrate themselves into society. At the end, recommendations for policy change will be presented to local government ministers. Then through volunteering for IARS, I was introduced to the Law Centres Federation, the organisation that manages the law centres around the country. So far, with them, I have co - organised workshops centred around young people and have given speeches at the Law Centres Annual Conference and the Advice Alliance Conference. Within the next few weeks, I am about to start a new project with them which I will let you know about in my next piece of writing.

Lastly, my two other main voluntary commitments include training as an adviser for the CAB and volunteering for the Disability Law Service.

Since I also enjoy creative writing, in my spare time, I write for the 405, the Fat Blog and youlikewelike.com

Of course, I will go into more detail with my next input for this blog and you'll just have to keep on reading.

All I will say for now is enjoy your experiences. And if you do not have any, get some. And if you feel about writing about its awesomeness, please do!

Till next time then...

Rochelle xxx 

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