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Hear a bit about the Sing-Along Surrey project, now recruiting project leaders!
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Summer Volunteering
Hello and welcome to the first volunteering update of the Summer break! This is the perfect time to engage with something new perhaps as we have lots of great summer volunteering opportunities for you to get involved with. Whether you want to sign up to a great online internship with one of our volunteering abroad organisations, or even take part in one of Kith and Kids summer camps we have opportunities for you.
There are also some last vacancies for our Project Leader positions, but literally only a limited few left! One project that is currently looking for leaders is our award winning Sing-Along Surrey project. If you are interested stepping up to visit care homes and singing songs with the elderly residents to boost wellbeing, then this is the one for you!
In the last year the project has worked closely with Together with Music to get videos of their performances into care homes across the UK throughout the pandemic. You can hear this year's Sing-Along Surrey Team Leader (and Mayor's Cup Winner!) Alice West talk to the charity online.
Find more information about our unique leadership programme on our website and apply now using our online form.
Luke, Phil and Louise
Royal Holloway Volunteering Staff Team
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Royal Holloway Volunteering Blog
We have a catalogue of great articles on our blog from this academic year, all written by student volunteering leaders!
Read Daisy's blog and Santiago's story sharing about why they would recommend applying to join the Volunteering leadership team this coming academic year.
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Online Tutoring Volunteer Roles
A number of our community partners are now actively recruiting volunteers to support vulnerable school pupils with their studies such as in subjects of science, maths, and english.
The Access Project
The Access Project, an education charity, supports disadvantaged young people to progress to university. They are looking for undergraduates, postgraduates, staff, and alumni who would be able to tutor a young person aged 14-18, online, 1 hour a week in term-time Sept-Nov 2021- Summer 2022 to support them with their academic studies. Find more information and apply online
Action Tutoring
Action Tutoring is an education charity that supports disadvantaged young people to achieve meaningful qualifications on leaving primary and secondary school. They partner our brilliant volunteer tutors with school pupils to increase their subject knowledge, whilst building on confidence and study skills. Our support is needed more now than ever before. Disadvantaged pupils have been hit hardest by this crisis and they want to help as many as we can! Find more details and sign up online.
Tutor the Nation
Tutor The Nation is in urgent need of tutors to keep supporting pupils in need. They provide disadvantaged pupils with 1 hour per week of free 1:1 online tuition and the charity was set up to tackle educational inequality that has been amplified by the pandemic.
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Royal Holloway Volunteer Awards
You can find all of our volunteering awards online, but we have highlighted a few for you right here!
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Outstanding Volunteering Abroad Student
Jon Howden-Evans presents the award for Outstanding Volunteering Abroad student. This award is presented to Sehr Shahid who did incredible work this year as part of the Challenges Abroad Thailand project.
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Outstanding Community Action Volunteer (Internal)
Tracy Bhamra presented the award to recognise volunteers that worked with one of our internal partners. The award was presented to the volunteers of the legal advice centre.
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Community Action
Search for your perfect volunteering opportunity on our online platform
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Kith and Kids
Our Community Partner Kith and Kids provide activities, opportunities, information and support for people with a learning disability or autism, their parents and siblings. They have a range of opportunities for their summer programmes that are great for volunteers that want to work with people with disabilities. These opportunities include their incredible Autism summer project and more! Find more details on our online platform.
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Just Bring Yourself CIC
Just Bring Yourself CIC need enthusiastic volunteers who have a passion for the natural environment and will love explaining what makes the Surrey Hills so valuable. The position comes with full training and you can find more about the volunteering role on our online platform.
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Social Action Projects
Find even more great projects on our online platform!
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Project Leader roles still available!
If you want to make the most of the next academic year, and want to develop your skills while meeting new people, why not consider a student leadership role?
We have a number of social action projects that are looking for leaders and you do not need to have volunteered on a project before to apply!
Donate and Reuse- A sustainability project encouraging students to donate unwanted clothes and food at the end of term.
Food Recycling Scheme- Volunteering with on campus serves to prevent food waste and redistribute unsold food to the local community.
Sing-Along Surrey- Volunteering in local care homes and singing songs with the residents.
Thames 21- A project that helps to conserve a local stretch of the Thames river, supporting with gardening and clearing.
If any of these projects sound interesting to you, find more information on our website and apply online. If you would like to chat about one of these roles then please feel free to email the volunteering team for a 1-1 catch up.
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Learn about the Challenges Abroad Virtual internship!
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Volunteering Abroad
Global Volunteering from your own home!
We have two great international volunteering abroad organisations that you can support through amazing online internships throughout the summer.
Travelteer
Travelteer's 12-week virtual internships provide UK university students with the opportunity to tackle various international development issues and achieve real outcomes for our partners in Sri Lanka.
Each student is paired with a Travelteer mentor that will guide them through the research process with regular contact via video conferencing. Find more information and sign up on our online platform.
Challenges Abroad
On this exciting virtual internship you will be working with the FutureSense Foundation and the local community in Thailand or Nepal. Challenges Abroad are offering Royal Holloway students a Summer promotion! If you join a Virtual Internship before the end of June, you will receive a £300 discount which will reduce to cost of the programme to £495. Just use the code 'royalholloway'. You can find more details online.
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Read how this student led initiative donated over 140 car parcels to local NHS frontline workers at Ashford and St Peter's NHS Foundation Trust in a special news story on the Royal Holloway website.
Each care package included; message of thanks, packet of sweets, soap, hand cream, travel mug, tea bags, biscuits, and a Royal Holloway water pouch.
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Please ensure that you keep informed about ongoing coronavirus updates on the Royal Holloway website.
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Message from the Alumni
Each update we will be showcasing videos from our volunteering alumni as they discuss how volunteering shaped their time at Royal Holloway and beyond.
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Hear from Mayor's Cup winner Sophie Byrne about the ways that she got involved during her time at university!
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And Finally...
We hope you are enjoying the summer and wanted to remind you that if you are in England and Wales you can use the NCVO website to find your local volunteer centre. Our local one is Voluntary Support North Surrey, and they do a great job of partnering people with local charities and opportunities. Why not find your local volunteer centre and offer your support?
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