JVN Blog

I owe my career to volunteering! I started training as a volunteer adviser with a CAB in 1997, having left school with a few O Levels and not going on to any sort of training except secretarial! In 1986 I was appointed as Deputy Manager of a CAB, and left the CAB service in 2004 […]

Below is an article written by Rhys Handley that appeared in the Times Series Newspaper.   A Jewish volunteering service are working with Barnet’s health services to make sure the people who want to be volunteers go to the best-suited services. The Jewish Volunteering Network (JVN) has announced it is working with the Barnet Clinical […]

This ‘holiday’ season saw me spending my sixth year as a volunteer at Crisis for Christmas, at one of their pop-up centres for homeless people. For the past fifty years, these centres have offered warmth, food, access to medical services, a hot shower, advice and entertainment – all of which are often difficult to find […]

I read with great interest the speech by the Prime Minister on stating her government’s desire to create a ‘shared society’ in a post-Brexit Britain. For many, this has echoes of David Cameron’s notion of the ‘big society’, which focussed on generating social cohesion by putting local people and local governments in greater control of […]