Volunteering: So much more than a line on the CV

For most young people, whether applying for university, internships, or jobs, there is constant pressure to have the best CV/UCAS form possible. Most understand that with the extreme competitiveness for ...

What next for student volunteering?

There has been a long tradition of student volunteering. In the late 1800s the expansion in Higher Education saw many innovations in the way students could help out in the ...

Volunteering In Israel – A Personal Story

Our new Social Media Consultant and former intern, Elliot Cukier, was recently afforded the lucky opportunity to go to Israel with the Genesis Challenge programme. Here he tells us all ...

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Faster, Higher and Stronger – Recapturing the Spirit of 2012

This week we handed our blog over to JonFreedman, a volunteer and ...

The Mancunian Candidate

Those of you more familiar with the work of JVN will be ...

A Tale of Boy Becomes Mensch

Those of you who are keen followers of JVN’s Twitter feed or ...

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Royal Seal of Approval for JVN

You may remember that JVN, supported by the Board of Deputies, conducted a campaign in 2012 on behalf of the Jewish community called the Jubilee Hour campaign. The campaign encouraged people to give 60 minutes of their time for Her Majesty The Queen’s 60 years of public service. JVN collected 50,000 hours from the Jewish […]

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#NationalVolunteerWeek #Volunteers and #

#NationalVolunteerWeek #Volunteers and #Charities

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#NationalVolunteerWeek Hurrah for….

#NationalVolunteerWeek Hurrah for….

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Happy National Volunteers’ Week! Come c

Happy National Volunteers’ Week! Come check out our website for many opportunities http://www.jvn.org.uk/

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#NationalVolunteerWeek Volunteers are…

#NationalVolunteerWeek Volunteers are….

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It’s National Volunteers’ Week and we

It’s National Volunteers’ Week and we would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to all volunteers for their fantastic work throughout the year !!!

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Make sure your #nominations for your #vo

Make sure your #nominations for your #volunteer are in before June 5th #NationalVolunteerWeek http://bit.ly/1yriayZ http://ow.ly/i/b0zpP

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GREAT STATS – GREAT VOLUNTEERS !!!! Over

GREAT STATS – GREAT VOLUNTEERS !!!! Over the past 6 months we have seen an average of 30% more new volunteers registering with us per month. That means 30% more people looking at volunteering opportunities !!! Over two thirds are women and over half are under 40 years old

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Big or small if you can ‪#‎walk‬ ‪#‎run‬

Big or small if you can ‪#‎walk‬ ‪#‎run‬ or ‪#‎volunteer‬ we need you! lia@jvn.org.uk http://www.communityfunrun.org/register/ http://ow.ly/i/aL1Xx

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Big or small if you can #walk #run or #v

Big or small if you can #walk #run or #volunteer we need you! lia@jvn.org.uk http://www.communityfunrun.org/register/ pls retweet http://ow.ly/i/ayZat

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Big or small if you can #walk #run or #v

Big or small if you can #walk #run or #volunteer we need you! lia@jvn.org.uk http://www.communityfunrun.org/register/ pls retweet http://ow.ly/i/ayZ4a

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Big or small if you can #walk #run or #v

Big or small if you can #walk #run or #volunteer we need you! lia@jvn.org.uk http://www.communityfunrun.org/register/ pls retweet http://ow.ly/i/ayYUe

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Leonie’s View – A Message for Shavuot

Chag Sameach, everyone. I have just come back to Britain from a week in Berlin. I have walked passed the Gestapo HQ; I visited the Wannasse House where the “Final Solution” was agreed in a 90 minute meeting; I walked on platform 17, the goods railway track at Grunewald Station,where most of Berlins Jews were taken to concentration […]

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Guest Blog – How could your organisation improve business by being more social online?

Matt Collins is a digital marketing consultant who runs http://www.charitychap.com. He can help charities use social media and online tools to achieve your organisation’s objectives cheaply and effectively.   Social Media is something of a misunderstood tool when it comes to marketing your company. Many people find the idea of blogging or tweeting to raise your company profile […]

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Could Superman Work For My Charity?

I was recently at a friend’s party. I knew one person there – the hostess, who had invited me – and so I was duly forced to mingle with people I didn’t know. With everyone I met, I found myself asking the same familiar questions: “What’s your name?”, “Who do you know here?”, and the […]

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