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Leonie’s View – A Message for Shavuot
Monday 13th May 2013
Chag Sameach, everyone. I have just come back to Britain from a week in Berlin. I have walked passed the Gestapo HQ; I visited the Wannasse House where the “Final Solution” was agreed in a 90 minute meeting; I walked on platform 17, the goods railway track at Grunewald Station,where most of Berlins Jews were taken to concentration […]
Guest Blog – How could your organisation improve business by being more social online?
Friday 3rd May 2013
Matt Collins is a digital marketing consultant who runs www.charitychap.com. He can help charities use social media and online tools to achieve your organisation’s objectives cheaply and effectively. Social Media is something of a misunderstood tool when it comes to marketing your company. Many people find the idea of blogging or tweeting to raise your company profile […]
Could Superman Work For My Charity?
Friday 3rd May 2013
I was recently at a friend’s party. I knew one person there – the hostess, who had invited me – and so I was duly forced to mingle with people I didn’t know. With everyone I met, I found myself asking the same familiar questions: “What’s your name?”, “Who do you know here?”, and the […]
The Mayor of Barnet Talks to JVN
Thursday 25th April 2013
JVN were honoured this week to be invited to the office of the Mayor of Barnet, Councillor Brian Schama. A member of the Jewish community – he conducts no civic events on Shabbat and other festivals – the Mayor was eager to share his views on volunteering and the Jewish community in the London Borough […]
Volunteering: How Far is Too Far?
Thursday 18th April 2013
Volunteering for a particular cause or organisation is often a way of becoming extremely passionate about it. People can go to extreme lengths in terms of the time they dedicate and, in some circumstances, the risks they take to see their vision become a reality. In this blog, JVN Intern Elliot Cukier examines just how far […]
Leonie’s View – Commitment, Conviction and Community: A Tale of Two Leaders
Monday 15th April 2013
The passing of Baroness Thatcher last week marked, for many, the end of an era, but her legacy of ‘Thatcherism’ will live on in the actions of governments and the minds of the British public for decades, possibly centuries, to come. Love her or hate her, one cannot deny that she was the woman Prime […]
Do We Have a Big Society?
Thursday 4th April 2013
In 2009, David Cameron laid out, as an alternative to big government, his plan to create a Big Society. In May 2010, following the general election victory, these plans were given pride of place in the coalition’s Programme for Government. This vision has prevailed through the hard times and the language has become commonplace. Now, […]
Guest Blog-Why Should Charities Embrace Cloud Technology?
Thursday 21st March 2013
This blog was originally posted by Andrea at SAM UK and when we saw this we thought we must share it with you all. As an organisation that has to be at the forefront of technology in order to provide the best service we can to all our charities and all our volunteers, we are strong […]
Leonie’s View – A Pesach Message
Thursday 21st March 2013
It’s that time again… All volunteers to the decks; well in most cases to the floors. Pesach is here… a wonderful mix of hard work, celebration and family networking!! This year together with my close family, I will decamp to Israel. Everything will be done on a plate this year, or is that Seder plate? […]
Volunteering in Schools: Ticking the Box is Not Enough
Friday 15th March 2013
Leonie and I recently wrote an article entitled Who Want to Be a Volunteer?, printed in the 2013 Charity Matters supplement in the Jewish Chronicle a few weeks ago. In this article, volunteering in schools was identified as one of the two means of volunteering that has come to the fore in recent years (the […]
