JVN Blog

On 21st November, some of the female members of JVN’s staff team went to TrainE-TraidE‘s Women in the Workplace Conference in Finchley. The conference was extremely well-attended and twelve speakers, experts in their fields, led workshops on a large variety of topics, including JVN Director Leonie’s workshop entitled “Volunteering – your way back into work.” […]

As part of our expanding youth and student programme, university life is becoming a growing part of JVN’s sphere of activity. Aside from the recent visits by Youth Co-ordinator Mike to several universities, JVN has also recently become involved with an organisation called Vscheme. This advertises itself as “the Jewish student volunteering scheme”, and Founder Ricky […]

This week’s blog contains important information from the National Council for Voluntary Organsiations‘ Chief Executive, Sir Stuart Etherington. Please take our time to read this and support the NCVO’s new campaign, Back Britain’s Charities. Together we can set the Third Sector on the road to recovery. “On 13th November 2012, NCVO released the results of […]

This week is Trustees’ Week, an annual event to showcase the great work that trustees do. To show our appreciation for not only our own wonderful trustees but also for trustees in general, and to promote the involvement of other people in trusteeships, JVN hosted two special events to celebrate Trustees’ Week 2012. The first […]

JVN is always grateful to its wonderful team of staff, trustees and volunteers and it is always sad when we have to say goodbye to someone. Last week was just such a sad occassion as we bade farewell to our Special Projects Co-ordinator Judy Nagler who has been with us for two years. Judy has worked […]