JVN Blog

Have you ever heard the one about a JVN intern, 300 JFS 6th Formers and 11 charities walking into a theatre? Thought not! Neither had we, so without further ado, Mike the JVN intern tells us more….

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

How we look after the most vulnerable members of our society is a true test of Jewish, or indeed any community’s, values. Helen Spiro who looks after everything volunteering at Nightingale, talks about her work with the very oldest members of the community – and all in deepest darkest South London!

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

Shana Tovah to our JVNBlog readers – make your New Year’s resolution to give the gift of your time!

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.

Do government initiatives put *you* off volunteering? New research suggests so!