University of Wolverhampton – Active Volunteers
The University of Wolverhampton are hosting a series of Volunteering Drop in sessions for students during SV week. The following organisations will be attending to promote their volunteering opportunities:
- Barnardo’s
- Beacon Centre for the Blind
- Walsall Education Business Partnership
- NSPCC
- RSPB
Northampton University-Centre for Community Volunteering
The Centre for Community Volunteering are running a series of one off challenges for SV Week called Time 4 Action;
- Heartstart First Aid Challenge with St John Ambulance
- Volunteering Fair called Home and Away-featuring Volunteering abroad, student led projects and societies
- Air Ambulance Challenge fundraising event
- Woodland Management Challenge
- Oxfam Waste Not Want Not Challenge
University of Leicester-Contact
Contact are running a week of taster sessions to promote volunteering opportunities around Leicester working with a variety of ages and areas promoting the following;
- Age Concern
- Young Enterprise
- Vista Youth Offending Team
- Choice Support
- Riverside Rangers
Nottingham Trent Students Union-Junction 1 Day Challenges
Junction 1 Day Challenges will be running a number of events including;
- First Aid Training
- Tree Planting Extravaganza
- Bingo Bonanza with the elderly
- Registering to be a bone marrow donor
- Painting and Decorating at St Andrews Church and Community Centre
- Poker at Nottinghamshire Hospice
- RSPCA-Pet a pet day
- Sign Language training
- Beauty morning at Nottingham Hospice
- Canal clean
- And volunteering towards employability training session
The Link, Solihull College
Holding two Volunteering fairs, one at each of their campuses. They are organising these with a new local partner in volunteering, SUSTAiN.
