volunteer my time

I emailed the Equality manager to volunteer for the First Contact Group. A response came back saying they are still finalising the details and will get back to me at the beginning of May.

I was in some training sessions this week at work for new starters, one being Equality and Diversity Awareness. My employer acts very strongly about students and staff being respected and treated fairly which is great.

The best bit though was that they are starting a ‘First Contact Group’ which people can volunteer for, and people come to them for basic advice and support.

I’ve been thinking it through for a couple of days now and have decided that, as long as my boss will allow it, I will volunteer for this.

I babysat Bea and her sister again last night as favour to my Mum’s friends. I didn’t expect anything pay wise so it can be classed as volunteering but I did get bought a plant for my troubles which was lovely and unexpected :-)

I think I’d like to help out in a soup kitchen. I’m going to look into doing that.

As I’ve been doing quite a lot of free babysitting of Bea I think this should count towards this goal.

Spent the day helping my friend who runs a charity. She was doing a massive mailing of Xmas boxes to the soldiers abroad and so I helped pack boxes and stuff.

There were loads of other people helping too and the atmosphere was really nice, I had a great day.

Technically I could ‘done’ this goal now but I’m not going to as I want to get a few varied volunteering days under my belt beforeI do that.

I’ve noticed a couple of the local charity shops close to me are asking for volunteers but they seem to want someone for like two or three days a week and I cant do that as I work full time. I guess I will just keep an eye open for someone wanting a short-houred-non-experienced volunteer…