Join the Adventure! - Volunteering Opportunities

DailyClicker

With the way the unemployment rate is looking at the moment, finding stuff to put on your CV to make you shine above other candidates is not really an optional extra, but a necessity!!!

If you're interested in volunteering, then there's a great new site, that I have been asked to promote:

www.jointheadventure.com

This website can give you a lot more information about volunteering opportunities with young people.

32,000 young people can't get involved in activities with the Scout Assocation because of a lack of volunteers over the age of 16.

Get involved, Don't do it for your UCAS statement alone though - do it because it's a brilliant opportunity to have a great time with other people your own age and also young people.

IB students, this is an ideal way to rack up those CAS hours, it's easy and fun and better than running a chess club in your school.

www.jointheadventure.com

PasturesNew

Another volunteering site... so many, no wonder nobody knows where to go.

I've looked at them all (except this one) and never found any volunteering anywhere near me at all that I could do.

Ah .... scouts... no thanks... dib dib dib and all that.

Not for me.

lynzpower

INterestingly I would LOVE to volunteer for the scouts.

However, they wouldnt have me because Id never been in the scouts- I was in brownies and guides.

OP has this now changed?

DailyClicker

That's quite an old stereotype!!! Times have changed, and things have moved on.....

lynzpower

Its not an "old sterotype"

This is what I was TOLD by the scouts association when I called them to ask to
become a volunteer.

DailyClicker

lynzpower wrote: »

INterestingly I would LOVE to volunteer for the scouts.

However, they wouldnt have me because Id never been in the scouts- I was in brownies and guides.

OP has this now changed?

I've never known that to be an issue!

If you got a 'can do' attitude, and from your post I can tell you have, you would be perfect.....

How about giving it another try! In a few months, you won't regret getting involved!:T

lynzpower

Yeah, Ill ring them again thanks

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I am months away from graduating with a degree in cultural studies and sociology and want to get into social care after graduation. I am currently volunteering for Childline to gain experience, almost finished the 10 week training course and take my first calls on Thursday, which I am nervous about. Loving the experience so far though. Just hope I manage to get a Job come the summer.

bookduck

DailyClicker wrote: »

That's quite an old stereotype!!! Times have changed, and things have moved on.....

The times have changed for Scouts. Remember bob-a-job? Well this has turned into lets play xmas music etc. from a getto-blaster, and hanging outside Tescos waving a collection tin.

At east they could offer to wash cars or do something constructive. I took umbrage to the flippant to hand-out attitude. Thought, as a nation are these the values which we impress and instil on our children! Scroungers-are-us, or what?

bristol_pilot

Bob a job disappeared many years ago - and good riddance. It was a nuissance to residents and put children at risk of abuse or injury. And householders at risk of being sued if one of the little darlings hurt themselves. The world has moved on and is simply a more sophisticated place these days.

bookduck

bristol_pilot wrote: »

Bob a job disappeared many years ago - and good riddance. It was a nuissance to residents and put children at risk of abuse or injury. And householders at risk of being sued if one of the little darlings hurt themselves. The world has moved on and is simply a more sophisticated place these days.

A more sophisticated place these days, please! Scrounging is not sophistication in my books! It was a nuisance to some. A godsend to many of the elderly. People with gardens and cars love 'em, (but not in a Michael Jackson way-allegedly). At least it thought them not to hold the sharp end, rather conning people out of a quick couple of quid. Now it is dodge-a-job!

To be honest, I've never heard of one ever get hurt.