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Community Group NVD Registration Form 28 July 2010, 10.53
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Corporate Application form - NDV 26 July 2010, 15.26
Corporate Volunteering Application Form
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National Day of Volunteering 26 July 2010, 14.05
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South Dublin Volunteer Recruitment Fair 26 July 2010, 12.24
Active Citizenship Week 2010
28th September 2010
Volunteer Recruitment Fair
Dear Colleague
The South Dublin County Active Citizenship Week wi
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Register on line for Active Citizenship Week! 16 July 2010, 11.31
The South Dublin County Active Citizenship Week takes place from 27th September to 1st October.
The aim of Active Citizenship Week is to promote and celebrate the wonderful contribution made by our citizens to the daily
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Volunteer Centres Ireland has some good news for the Joint Oireachtas Committee. Representatives from Volunteer Centres Ireland (VCI) will meet with the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs on January 28th 09 to discuss the growth and progress of volunteering infrastructure in Ireland since the committee launched its report “Volunteers and Volunteering in Ireland” in January 2005
The 2005 report recommended the expansion of ‘volunteering infrastructure’ and Chairperson Tricia Nolan, CEO Yvonne McKenna and Board member Tina Roche from Business in the Community, will today highlight how Volunteer Centres Ireland has grown from a group of eight centres to a strong network of twenty volunteer centres located across the nation with a database of nearly 17,000 volunteers.
 Yvonne McKenna, said of the meeting, “ We are delighted to have the opportunity to update the Joint Oireachtas Committee and impress upon them the value of volunteering, especially in today’s economic climate. Our Volunteer Centres have seen a 65% increase in the numbers of volunteers registering in January of this year compared to last year. With more and more people citing unemployment as a motivation to volunteer, that number is likely to increase even further.
Volunteer Centres Ireland hope to drive home the positive image of volunteering in Ireland that they are capturing and the value of volunteering as a worthwhile endeavor. Volunteering, especially in these times, gives people an opportunity to make a difference, pull together, improve and learn new skills and keep active if they are temporarily unemployed.
In 2008 more than 7,500 individuals registered to volunteer and over 3000 of them were placed in some of the 2,400 organisations registered with the centres. Of those 7,500 volunteer 33% were not Irish nationals and 56% of volunteers had never volunteered before. Young people were very actively engaged with 69% of them under 35 and 50% of the aged between 16 and 25. 200,136 hours of volunteering were generated (equivalent to 114 full-time employees).
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