Feel Good News

Though we don’t always submit regular blog posts to the site we do share a lot of information via the SV in the News page here on the site. That’s where you can find links to various bits of relevant news from across the UK. We do this by monitoring online mentions of  volunteering + any reference to a marginalised group such as disabled people, those with learning difficulties, refugees & the newly...

Middleton Park

This is another clip from the Volunteer Films project on the Community Channel. I realise that this is a somewhat sheltered situation in that it brings together two organisations – MPEC and Mencap – who each have their own mission to support disabled people but it seems such a simple yet productive idea. If you have not heard of this project yet then please let us introduce Middleton Park Equestrian...

Video Tues – Disability to Ability

When we first conceived of this project one of the groups we wondered about was young people. Are they, in terms of common barriers to volunteering, a practical segmentation of our local communities or is the label or youth just too broad to work with? We will be exploring this question early in the New Year with Tim Davies’ peronal blog. Tim Davies of the organisation <em>Practical Participation. In the...