JVN Blog

For most young people, whether applying for university, internships, or jobs, there is constant pressure to have the best CV/UCAS form possible. Most understand that with the extreme competitiveness for places it is essential that you make yourself stand out from the crowd. Unfortunately this has created a compulsory mentality towards volunteering as merely doing […]

There has been a long tradition of student volunteering. In the late 1800s the expansion in Higher Education saw many innovations in the way students could help out in the community. The inter-war period and the depression saw a new movement of organised economy and relief among the UK student population – one which is […]