JVN Blog

Jewish food and volunteering – could there be a better recipe for a happy life?

JVN team and volunteers give the gift of their time at Jewish Living Expo – and get Eric Pickles MP to as well…!

As more people age 30-49 start to volunteer due to unemployment, Leonie looks at the challenges facing the volunteering world and asks: Is Big Society necessarily better society?

While the EU alliance might be looking a bit shaky, the Jewish European volunteering community is going from strength to strength…

Leonie muses upon Interfaith Week 2011, the interfaith work that JVN does and meeting Baroness Warsi!

JVN’s Trustees Week event at HW Fisher posed big questions, big challenges and suggests opportunities

Hello JVNBlog readers.  I hope you all had the most restful and meaningful weeks of Yom Tovim.  As we’ve rolled around to the new reading of the Torah, I realise that nearly a whole year has gone by without me introducing you to our (no longer) new Operations Manager, Joanne.  Despite our best intentions, me mentioning it on […]

Latest Government figures show the ups and mainly downs of volunteering in the UK

So much attention is given to the importance of the 3Rs. Quite right too. But I’m all about the 3Cs – cooperation, collaboration and coordination. There is a phrase in the African language, Ibantu, Sawu Bon, which means I see you – it doesn’t mean seeing as in visually seeing, but acknowledging, as in you […]

I want to share with you a couple of special moments from the week. Moments that inspired me, touched me and made me so grateful to be working in the voluntary sector and for the Jewish community.