As you can see from my blog post title, I have reached my mini challenge of doing 20 hours in five days. In fact, I surpassed that and got a whole days volunteering in 5 days. This, for me, is a big achievement, given it's about 5 hours a day on average (4.8 to be exact but that's a bit hard to work out). Broken down, this is as follows:
Monday - North Yorkshire Youth Council
Tuesday - Team V
Wednesday - Oxfam Shop
Thursday - Flying High (Barnardos)
Friday - Oxfam Shop
I also got my volunteering at Oxfam sorted so that in two weeks time, I start an NVQ in Retail. It's not something I'm likely to need for the career that I'm hoping to go into, however, it's an extra qualification (one of many). It's also something to work towards, besides an unknown number of possible volunteering hours. I'm currently on 339 and I'm hoping to get to 340 soon. Shouldn't take long. Of course, there is the one hazard of working in a charity shop and that's in the last few days I managed to burn myself on the steamer a few times (don't worry, only tiny and not saw at all) and today managed to cut myself on the same finger twice within a few hours and all on a cardboard box. I am now minus one finger for doing many things but mainly typing and playing the guitar.
I'm just kind of wishing that the charity shop wasn't so big. you wouldn't expect to be able to get lost in a charity shop but this shop has so many doors and rooms and stairs that you end up standing at the stairs wondering where you need to go to get somewhere and your Deputy Manager is laughing her head off at you. Not the best thing to do.
This was originally meant to be a Team v Blog but has gradually turned into a blog about general volunteering and every now and then, positive news from other volunteering in my local area. What can I say? I like to spread a positive image of young people. I feel it's important to combat the often negative perception of young people in the media. With a similar objective, if you are interested, the British Youth Council run a monthly positive stories publication which can be found here . It's also just good to keep people updated on my volunteering in general. If you want to hear about things along the lines of what has been mentioned in this section of the post, please stay tuned over the next few days.
The work of young people is vital in raising issues that matter to them, as is their voice and what is done to show that anywhere possible. One of my fellow Team V Leaders who represents Leeds Metropolitan University posted a petition to stop funding for dyslexic and disabled students. Here is the NUS response to it. Give it a read. it's bound to be interesting.
Overall, it's been a great week of volunteering for me and hopefully you find this an interesting read. I went a bit off topic but only to shout out about things that I care about. Plus, they are still kind of related. Oh well. Stay tuned for more shout outs and good news about volunteering (both my own and local projects).
Monday - North Yorkshire Youth Council
Tuesday - Team V
Wednesday - Oxfam Shop
Thursday - Flying High (Barnardos)
Friday - Oxfam Shop
I also got my volunteering at Oxfam sorted so that in two weeks time, I start an NVQ in Retail. It's not something I'm likely to need for the career that I'm hoping to go into, however, it's an extra qualification (one of many). It's also something to work towards, besides an unknown number of possible volunteering hours. I'm currently on 339 and I'm hoping to get to 340 soon. Shouldn't take long. Of course, there is the one hazard of working in a charity shop and that's in the last few days I managed to burn myself on the steamer a few times (don't worry, only tiny and not saw at all) and today managed to cut myself on the same finger twice within a few hours and all on a cardboard box. I am now minus one finger for doing many things but mainly typing and playing the guitar.
I'm just kind of wishing that the charity shop wasn't so big. you wouldn't expect to be able to get lost in a charity shop but this shop has so many doors and rooms and stairs that you end up standing at the stairs wondering where you need to go to get somewhere and your Deputy Manager is laughing her head off at you. Not the best thing to do.
This was originally meant to be a Team v Blog but has gradually turned into a blog about general volunteering and every now and then, positive news from other volunteering in my local area. What can I say? I like to spread a positive image of young people. I feel it's important to combat the often negative perception of young people in the media. With a similar objective, if you are interested, the British Youth Council run a monthly positive stories publication which can be found here . It's also just good to keep people updated on my volunteering in general. If you want to hear about things along the lines of what has been mentioned in this section of the post, please stay tuned over the next few days.
The work of young people is vital in raising issues that matter to them, as is their voice and what is done to show that anywhere possible. One of my fellow Team V Leaders who represents Leeds Metropolitan University posted a petition to stop funding for dyslexic and disabled students. Here is the NUS response to it. Give it a read. it's bound to be interesting.
Overall, it's been a great week of volunteering for me and hopefully you find this an interesting read. I went a bit off topic but only to shout out about things that I care about. Plus, they are still kind of related. Oh well. Stay tuned for more shout outs and good news about volunteering (both my own and local projects).
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