Having had a long break from my blog to sort my volunteering and college work out, I'm Back. I'm now several weeks into the campaign and although I have an idea for an event and a possible place to put it on, I am still without a partner organisation locally. We're working on it though. I had my first volunteer meeting the other day and it was great to have finally done one. I managed to delegate a few tasks to take the pressure off a bit and let me get on with college work but it's still a work in progress.
I have an idea that I'm going to do an arty display on the subject of the campaign, however, for that I need volunteers from the Art department at college. A job for when we go back, I think. Luckily, they are right next to the media department. If I have any luck, we may be on our way. I have certainly got the awareness of the campaign locally sussed out though. Massive thanks to PA-Support-Services, an organisation in Darlington that supports the third sector. Also, a huge thanks to #DarloBiz and DarloBizHour for all the support with promoting the cause locally.
I seem to do well in organizing a team and the media bits, my specialty, however, getting an organisation is proving harder than I first thought. I'm about a week behind but I'll catch up. Unfortunately, my list of things to do for volunteering is very long and that's not just Team V jobs. Currently, I have stuff for a North Yorkshire Youth Council campaign to sort, bits for my local youth council and my Oxfam Volunteering. At least I'm not board.
After doing my previous challenges for volunteering, I am now setting myself mini targets each week. This week, I have aimed to get about 20 hours of volunteering done. I'm currently on about 17 and should get about another 5 tomorrow. That makes it 22. Getting back to the topic of the progress of the campaign, with the help of Mum, we've found an organisation called Equality North East who seem to run the Darlington Racial Equality Council, so I'm hoping to get in contact with them. It's worth a try.
If I can get an organisation working with Team V Darlington, I then only have the venue and event to plan. I have a sort of plan for the event but it needs the costing for it doing. It will get done, don't worry. I think that's as far as I have got for now. I need to contact a few people but apart from that, I'm on my way to having a half-decent campaign. Who knows? It might all work out in the end. Fingers crossed and wish me luck. PS: All the links are to the organisations Twitter (or in the case of Team V Darlington, my Twitter) but you can access their main websites from there
I have an idea that I'm going to do an arty display on the subject of the campaign, however, for that I need volunteers from the Art department at college. A job for when we go back, I think. Luckily, they are right next to the media department. If I have any luck, we may be on our way. I have certainly got the awareness of the campaign locally sussed out though. Massive thanks to PA-Support-Services, an organisation in Darlington that supports the third sector. Also, a huge thanks to #DarloBiz and DarloBizHour for all the support with promoting the cause locally.
I seem to do well in organizing a team and the media bits, my specialty, however, getting an organisation is proving harder than I first thought. I'm about a week behind but I'll catch up. Unfortunately, my list of things to do for volunteering is very long and that's not just Team V jobs. Currently, I have stuff for a North Yorkshire Youth Council campaign to sort, bits for my local youth council and my Oxfam Volunteering. At least I'm not board.
After doing my previous challenges for volunteering, I am now setting myself mini targets each week. This week, I have aimed to get about 20 hours of volunteering done. I'm currently on about 17 and should get about another 5 tomorrow. That makes it 22. Getting back to the topic of the progress of the campaign, with the help of Mum, we've found an organisation called Equality North East who seem to run the Darlington Racial Equality Council, so I'm hoping to get in contact with them. It's worth a try.
If I can get an organisation working with Team V Darlington, I then only have the venue and event to plan. I have a sort of plan for the event but it needs the costing for it doing. It will get done, don't worry. I think that's as far as I have got for now. I need to contact a few people but apart from that, I'm on my way to having a half-decent campaign. Who knows? It might all work out in the end. Fingers crossed and wish me luck. PS: All the links are to the organisations Twitter (or in the case of Team V Darlington, my Twitter) but you can access their main websites from there
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