Make the most of National Volunteering Week 2023

National Volunteering Week is a week long celebration of volunteering taking place from Monday 15 May – Sunday 21 May 2023. Each year across Ireland, National Volunteering Week includes a range of events, activities and online campaigns that showcase all that is great about volunteering This year’s theme is Connecting Communities and aims to highlight how […]

Make the most of NVW 2020

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Taking Care of Your Wellbeing Due to Covid-19 National Volunteering Week is taking place a little later this year; 21st – 27th September. We will focus on thanking volunteers and organisations for everything they have done this year and encourage everyone to focus on their own health and well-being. It’s been a tough year for […]

#WhyIVolunteer – Paul Seary

  I started volunteering in 2017. When my contract finished with the community employment scheme in Jobcare . Voluntary work provided me with an opportunity to learn new skills, to meet and work with interesting people while making a positive contribution to a worthwhile cause. My first position as a volunteer was as a Tour […]

#WhyIVolunteer – Sherry Huang

I began to volunteer in Dublin City Volunteer Centre two months after I relocated to Dublin. I came here to join my husband and was trying to settle in and find a job. Moving to a new country is a daunting experience. At first, I didn’t have many friends here. As an absolutely outgoing person, […]

#WhyIVolunteer – Dorothy Collin

The Beast from the East had just arrived and while the roads were still passable everyone was stocking up their houses. I was doing the same and then for some reason that I guess now was fate, I thought of the lane beside my home and the horses that were often there, so I drove […]

Make the most of NVW 2019

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Definition of Volunteering We are fast approaching the highlight of the Irish volunteering calendar – National Volunteering Week (NVW 2019 13th – 19th May 2019), is the one week of the year when we encourage everyone in Ireland to give volunteering a try. When it comes to volunteering, everyone has something to give and so […]