JVN Blog

As a very special treat for you this week, we have a guest blog for you. This happens when we recruit an expert from outside JVN to tell us about a special event, campaign or concept to do with volunteering. This week’s guest blogger is Mike Bright, an expert on the concept of microvolunteering who […]

If you have been following the recent JVN blogs, Facebook posts and tweets or if you have read the latest JVN newsletter, you will have noticed that we have launched a new employee volunteering project called Embrace. The aim of embrace is to strategically match businesses with community partners to maximise the benefits of employee […]

As part of JVN’s expanding youth programme we are starting to forge strong relationships with university students up and down the country. As well as the current internships page on the JVN website, which showcases a wide range of voluntary internships in the charity sector to develop young people’s skills and professional experience, JVN is now offering new […]

Another Midweek Musing story, too good to wait until Thursday. This time it’s about The Greater Manchester and Region Jewish Community Awards, which took place on Sunday 14th October at the Nicky Alliance Day Centre in Manchester. JVN supported the Awards along with our partners, The Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester and Region and […]

And so we come to the end – our last Olympic- and Paralympic-related blog post. I hope you have enjoyed reading them and have perhaps been inspired by the stories of volunteering. Again, there are two stories this week. The first comes from Daniel Musikant, who volunteered at both sets of Games and, as you […]

Chag Sameach from everyone at JVN – we hope that you are still in a festive mood for Succot. This week we are talking about Trustees. But who are these mysterious people? Every charity has a group of Trustees who are essentially responsibile for that charity’s direction and subsequent performance – they are sometimes also […]

Seeing as how we have just begun the Jewish new year of 5773, it seems apt to talk about one of JVN’s key projects for the – albeit the Gregorian year of 2012. The Jubilee year has brought with it the Jubilee Hour initiative, the idea being that we all donate 60 minutes of our […]

There were many different types of volunteers over the London 2012 Games, each of which had a very important role to fulfil. This week we are featuring the blogs of two T3 drivers at the Games. First up is Trevor Salomon, who talks about his ‘awesome’ volunteering experience at the Olympics and the Paralympics… It’s […]

Because the last blog was so long and your eyes may be feeling a bit sore from all that reading, I’ll keep this one short. But I had to share with you 3 things: Firstly, we have a fantastically cute remark from Jonah Marks, aged 6¾, about his grandma’s Olympic volunteering. My grandma is a […]

The London 2012 Games may be over (boo!) but we still have Olympic and Paralympic volunteers waiting to tell their stories (yay!). We firmly believe in special treats for those who read our blogs, so here’s two stories for you today. First up we have Charlotte Leigh, a Games Maker and it would seem a […]