Volunteer Profile Alexandra Hunter Age - 17 Where do you volunteer? St. John Ambulance, Habitat for Humanity What does your volunteering involve? Serving others in Restore DIY charity shop, cleaning furniture, pricing items, take inquiries and generally help out. Learned first aid skills and attended events in case of need. What do you enjoy most about volunteering? Every time I volunteer I always feel so much better as I have the sense of being able to help someone else or make a difference someone’s life. Why would you encourage others to become a Millennium Volunteer? Give it a go, I am naturally quite a quiet person but volunteering has really brought me out of myself, given me confidence and genuine interest to help others. For more information visit www.volunteernow.co.uk Spring 2016 | Lisburn Boost your job prospects! Volunteering is one of the best ways to make your CV stand out and get that dream job. You can gain new skills, training, great experience and confidence in an area where you would like to work; all while giving something back to your community, having fun and meeting new people! Employers also value volunteering, with 51% of recent graduates saying volunteering helped get them a job.
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Volunteer Profile Alexandra Hunter
Age - 17
Where do you volunteer?
St. John Ambulance, Habitat for
Humanity
What does your volunteering involve?
Serving others in Restore DIY charity shop, cleaning furniture, pricing
items, take inquiries and generally help out. Learned first aid skills and
attended events in case of need.
What do you enjoy most about
volunteering? Every time I volunteer I always feel so much better as I have the sense of being able to help someone else or make a difference someone’s life.
Why would you encourage others to become a Millennium
Volunteer? Give it a go, I am naturally quite a quiet person but volunteering has really brought me out of myself, given me confidence and genuine interest to help others.
For more information visit www.volunteernow.co.uk
Spring 2016 | Lisburn
Boost your job prospects!
Volunteering is one of the best ways to make your CV stand out and get that dream job. You can gain new skills, training, great experience and confidence in an area where you would like to work; all while giving something back to your community, having fun and meeting new people! Employers also value volunteering, with 51% of recent graduates saying volunteering helped get them a job.
Cancer Focus NI
Dobbies - Lisburn, one of Northern Ireland’s leading garden and DIY
centres, has announced Cancer Fo-cus Northern Ireland as its new char-ity partner for 2016. So come join our Amazing Bucket Collecting team! It's
as easy as ABC!! A - Apply to join our team. B - Buckets & t-shirts pro-vided. C - Collect for Cancer Focus
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Greater Lisburn Ageing Well
We are looking for volunteers to join our ReStore Team. Habitat Restore
is a retail outlet selling new and used, discontinued and surplus
building and home improvement ma-terials to the general public. Net rev-enue from the operation will be used
by Habitat for Humanity Northern Ireland to further its mission, both
locally and globally. http://bit.ly/1NFvmB3
SENSE
As a volunteer you will be helping deafblind people to enjoy all aspects
of their lives, share in their joy of continuing to do the things that they find fulfilling or in having new experi-ences. We help them to meet new
people and achieve things they nev-er dreamed possible!
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Stepping Stones NI
We are looking for volunteers or groups who can give us 2 hours of their time on a Saturday and help attend our Charity Car Park in Lis-
burn. The funds will go towards changing the life of someone with learning disabilities, and give them
the chance to come to our organisa-tion and learn new skills, feel confi-
dent and gain self worth.
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R-Space Gallery CIC
We are looking for a volunteer to help on an ongoing, occasional ba-sis to help with some small gallery maintenance tasks such as small repairs, painting, and other exhibi-tion setup tasks such as making
plinths.
http://bit.ly/1xkl2Mp
Action Cancer
A fantastic new store opening in Lis-burn City Centre. Help support
Northern Ireland's leading local can-cer charity if you have a spare few
hours a week you can gain so much. Learn new skills and meet new peo-ple. This store has a full time store
manager and will be able to provide training and support for volunteers.
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LCC Community Trust
We need people in store who can as-sist with income donations and make
up food parcels. We also need ongoing support with fund-raising events which
could range from fun nights to bag packs to sponsored fun runs. We also have admin opportunities to assist with our multi media development to include
updating websites and writing our newsletter to keep sponsors up to date.
http://bit.ly/1TNYoWc
Scan the QR code with your smart phone to go straight to our website for the latest info and opportunities!
Marie Curie Cancer Care
Be the voice of Marie Curie Cancer Care in your community. Organise
and give your own talks to local groups, raising awareness of palliative
care and our nursing service. As a confident public speaker you'll be go-ing out and about, giving talks about
the charity, explaining what we do and providing information to local commu-
nity groups.
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Lagan Canal Trust
The Lagan Canal Trust is opening the garden at Navigation House,
Lisburn to the public in 2017. There is much work and preparation to be done to achieve this and the Trust has roles for the above who will be involved at all stages on progress.
http://bit.ly/24yxC9p
St. Lukes Family Centre
Our centre supports families in the local area by providing a drop-in-
facility, courses and activities geared towards improving essential skills, self
esteem, and health information and promotion. The creche supports this service by allowing parents to partici-pate while their children are cared for in a high quality setting with qualified
staff.
http://bit.ly/1pmwTrA
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enhance your work experience? Download Steps Around the World, a new guide from Volunteer Now
that aims to give you an idea of the opportunities available for short-term
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also the personal skills and independ-ent learning styles which are often
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