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Global Experiences Fair
The Global Experiences Fair will be taking place on Wednesday 26 October, between 4-6pm in the Windsor Building. With a range of organisations offering the opportunity to volunteer abroad in a varied choice of locations, it's a great way to find out more about each project and its aims. Following the event, our partners Think Pacific and Challenges Abroad will be hosting information sessions based around the opportunities they will be offering for the upcoming year.
There is funding available for Volunteering Abroad opportunities via the Turing Scheme for those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Visit the Royal Holloway Turing Scheme webpage on the Student Intranet to find out more.
Luke, Phil and Louise
Royal Holloway Volunteering Staff Team
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Thank You!
A huge thank you to all of those who participated in Make A Difference Day 2022. From wrapping shoeboxes to running a community cafe, from litter picking to constructing compost bins, you all helped to make a positive difference to the local community!
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Community Action
Search for your perfect volunteering opportunity on our online platform
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Support a charity Fireworks night!
Our new community partner Surrey Ski Club for the Disabled are holding a fundraising night at the Foresters Pub on Friday 4 November. You can volunteer to support this event in a variety of roles and will be supporting an excellent small charity to rather valuable funds. This event is reliant on volunteers and you can email us before Monday 31 October to register an interest.
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Shop Volunteers Needed
The Princess Alice Hospice in Egham are urgently looking for volunteers to help run their shop throughout the week. Duties include making displays, serving customers, and pricing goods. All Training will be provided to volunteers, and this role is available until June 2023. Find out more here.
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Reading Volunteers Needed
Bookmark are looking for Reading Volunteers to help support disadvantaged primary school children with their reading skills. The role will require you to attend two thirty-minute sessions a week over several weeks. View the opportunity on the volunteering platform to find out more.
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Volunteer Tutor with The Access Project
The Access Project are currently looking for a Volunteer Tutor to tutor a young person on an A-level or GCSE subject of your choice. This role will involve delivering a one-hour session over the 2022/2023 academic year, as well as attending induction and training sessions. Sign up for the opportunity online.
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Social Action
Find more student- led opportunities on our online platform
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Love in a Box
Our Christmas Team have been hard at work organising this year's Love in a Box Campaign. All donations and wrapped shoeboxes must be donated by Friday 11 November. Donations can be dropped off at the Volunteering Hub between Monday- Friday, 10-4pm.
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Gardening Session with Love Your Community
Our Love Your Community Team are hosting a short gardening session in collaboration with the Forest Community Hub in Englefield Green. Running from 10-1pm on Wednesday 26 October, this activity will involve helping local children to learn about nature and the importance of gardening and spending time outdoors. Check out the opportunity on the volunteering platform.
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The Homeless Project's Campus Sleepout 2023
The Homeless Project's Campus Sleepout will be taking place on Saturday 4th February 2023 on the Founder's Tennis Courts, to highlight the struggles faced by the homeless population in the UK. Find out more about this opportunity on the volunteering platform. If you are interested in the Homeless project and supporting this event, please email us.
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Love Your Campus Charity Dog Walk
The charity dog walk in partnership with Home Instead, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home Old Windsor and our Love Your Community team will be taking place on Sunday 30 October on-campus. Following the event, coffee and cake will be on offer! Sign up to the opportunity on our online platform.
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Egham Choral - Learn to Sing Research
Our partner Egham Choral are an organisation that aims to support and foster singing in the community. They are aiming to provide an opportunity for new/rusty singers to take up singing in a choir or to improve existing skills in the Autumn during a short course. They would like to find out how to encourage underrepresented groups to join us and what skills they would like to learn. Sign up online.
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Volunteering Abroad
At out Holloway Global fair on Wednesday 26 October we are going to welcome a number of organisations onto campus. This includes three Volunteering Abroad organisations with excellent opportunities.
If you are interested in these opportunities then come to their information sessions taking place after the fair!
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Challenges Abroad
Challenges Abroad are committed to ensuring our programmes are ethical and sustainable, and mutually beneficial to both volunteers and the communities where they work, which is why all Challenges Abroad programmes support their partner charity, The Futuresense Foundation which supports community development in some of the poorest regions in the world.
Find more information online.
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Meet Challenges Abroad
6pm Wednesday 26 October
Windsor 0-03
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Think Pacific
Gain global experience in the Fiji Islands with Think Pacific in partnership with the Fijan Government. Volunteer in Fiji and experience the unique culture, customs and way of life in the South Pacific islands.
Make lifelong friendships and share memories on a challenging project, whilst gaining global experience!
Find more information online.
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Meet Think Pacific
7pm Wednesday 26 October
Windsor 0-03
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Raleigh Costa Rica
Raleigh Costa Rica is defined by the passionate and hard-working people that make up its global team. They are a youth-driven organisation supporting a global movement of young people to take action. Young people make up Raleigh Costa Rica. They determine, design, and lead the work that Raleigh Costa Rica do.
Find more information online.
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Meet Raleigh Costa Rica
6pm Thursday 27 October
Online
Email volunteering@royalholloway.ac.uk for details
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And Finally...
As October is Black History Month it is a fantastic time to start planning for next years Stephen Lawrence Day in April 2023 marking 30 years since the death of Stephen Lawrence. If you are interested in learning more about this project or would like to get involved in a national legacy of chance initiative then please email us.
As well as being part of an incredibly important national event this is a great initiative for students interested in social justice, equality and diversity. All are welcome to join.
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