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#Microvolunteering This year JVN will be adding a bit of a twist to their #YoniJesner Awards. We won’t just be celebrating volunteering that night but we’ll be doing some too!  We believe that, if all participants join in, this will be the single largest ever instance of volunteering in one location in the Jewish community! […]

So, it’s small charity week and we decided to lend our support to the countless small charities out there by examining how difficult it is for them to make the impact and difference they want. There are 180,000 registered charities in England and Wales, all of which are recorded on the online register of charities. […]

This year as in the past few years, the national Volunteers’ Week coincides directly with the Jewish Festival of Shavuot. This gives us at JVN an opportunity to link the valuable contribution volunteers make to our community with the festival of chessed (kindness).  But this year, we have an added significance – it’s the 30th anniversary […]

So you’ve made the big decision and have decided to become a volunteer.  Congratulations!  But… you’re now faced with the overwhelming decision of which charity.   It’s a big decision to make and not to be taken lightly. According to data from NCVO (UK Civil Society Almanac) there are just over 161,000 voluntary organisations.  This data […]

#Charities & #SocialMedia DO mix  Charities often struggle when it comes to marketing – they either need a wealthy benefactor to fund it, be a household name so donations can be syphoned off to different budgets, or to rely on a partnership or two with well-known brands that will tell their story for them. Social […]

I was talking to a friend recently about life and work and we both agreed that there are too many people stuck in a job they don’t like. This is a real shame. Life is full of unexpected twists and turns and it is a waste spending years, months, even days doing something which you […]

Why: Thanking volunteers is possibly the best way of keeping them involved. A recent JVN survey revealed that regularly thanked volunteers are more motivated – “The professional staff regular thank me for my contributions, which is lovely” – than ones who are not – “It would be nice if the organisation to thank me occasionally for my […]

You may think the Bank of Time would be a science-fiction creation, straight out of Doctor Who or Back to the Future. But think again – it’s very much a real world idea! Even though it might not be a real place, you can still withdraw some time and deposit it back later by doing […]

Wandsworth Community Chaplaincy Trust is an exciting new-faith based organisation working with people who find themselves in prison. We run a befriending scheme which supports them through the gate upon release. WCCT is an independent charity set up jointly by Wandsworth Prison’s multi faith chaplaincy and the parish of St Mary Magdalene, Wandsworth Common, from […]