JVN Blog

JVN, in partnership with the JLC, hosts over 40 charities at the 2022 Reigniting Volunteering Conference  The Jewish Volunteering Network (JVN), together with The Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) hosted their first in-person volunteering event since the pandemic began.  The event was designed to help charities confront the changes that have occurred post pandemic, to reengage […]

What is a Trustee and How do I become one? Nicky Goldman, CEO of JVN, Penny Wilson CEO of Getting on Board and Michelle Janes, Co-Chief Executive of the JLC and Executive Director of Lead   The value charities bring to our society is widely known and we have seen this even more so throughout the pandemic, […]

JVN hosted the annual Celebration of Volunteering Awards 2019 recently at the Allianz Arena, Hendon.   Below you can view our 2019 brochure to see all our amazing winners [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.jvn.org.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/JVN-event-guide-6.pdf” title=”JVN event guide 6″]  

The Jewish Volunteering Network was out in force to mark this year’s National Volunteers’ Week event, an annual celebration of volunteers and volunteering that takes place between June 1-7. The week was packed with a mixture of roadshows, conferences and JVN appearances, highlighting the achievements and huge possibilities of volunteering within the Jewish and wider […]

School governors are an essential element contributing to the excellent schools that we have in the community. There is often the misconception that you need a background in education to be a school governor or be a parent of a child at that school. This is not the case. A school’s governing body needs to […]

    Have you ever taken part in the Maccabi Community Fun Run? Its a wonderful event for the whole family and this year’s event promises to be bigger and better than before, with the added element of the 5K colour run. Please think about running for JVN, to enable volunteers to make a big […]

Eyes Down for JVN Bingo! On Sunday 10 March JVN held its first Bingo Evening with a professional Bingo Caller.  The event sold out and was a great success with lovely prizes of wine and chocolates courtesy of The Walnut Tree!  Many of our wonderful volunteers attended and brought their friends along to enjoy and […]

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 […]

You may remember that JVN, supported by the Board of Deputies, conducted a campaign in 2012 on behalf of the Jewish community called the Jubilee Hour campaign. The campaign encouraged people to give 60 minutes of their time for Her Majesty The Queen’s 60 years of public service. JVN collected 50,000 hours from the Jewish […]

I wrote a blog a few weeks ago entitled ‘What Makes A Volunteering Role Suitable’, highlighting the need to change our attitudes towards the ‘suitability’ of a candidate for a particular volunteering role. I asserted that ‘those who claim to have individual support needs should be taken on their individual merits, not as part of […]