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What you get from volunteering Print E-mail
  • Volunteering provides unique opportunities to make a difference to people's lives. You can use your skills and experience to help and enrich the local community.

 

  • Volunteering proves to your future employer that you have developed necessary skills and are a committed person. This is especially useful for CVs, application forms and job interviews.

 

  • Volunteering gives you a chance to get experience in a field you’d like to work in.

 

  • Our volunteers will be trained, which will be useful both while volunteering and in later life.

 

  • Volunteering gives you the opportunity to test out potential career choices.

 

  • Volunteering provides the chance to meet people you would not normally come across.

 

  • Volunteering can be both fun and fulfilling, allowing you to experience a variety of opportunities generally unavailable any other way.

 

 

 

 

Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 December 2007 )
 
 
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