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What do you do?
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I'm just being nosey now.
Do you do any volunteering/activism on a regular or occasional basis?
I tend to forget that lots of people in the real world don't, and am still getting over the confused looks I got from colleagues at lunch about what I do.
Do you do any volunteering/activism on a regular or occasional basis?
I tend to forget that lots of people in the real world don't, and am still getting over the confused looks I got from colleagues at lunch about what I do.
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I used to do a lot more when I was at school and I miss it
Not enough
I am a bit of a volunteering geek and work with volunteers here at YouthNet. But in my spare time I also volunteer at a hospital, playing with the children to cheer them up and make them feel better
I'm pretty involved in Scouting, run a section, so that's weekly meetings plus planning and preparation for them. I'm also involved in one of the support teams at county level, so run taster nights for scout troops and explorer units through that, as well as training courses every term or so, and sit on the steering committee. Then when the weather is good I also do some watersports instructing, either as taster sessions for local groups, or with the local sea scouts.
I'm the safety advisor at the rowing club.
Then through links at work, I mentor an Engineering Education Scheme team at one of the local secondary schools, and then do occasional stuff doing science/maths out reach into schoools, running activities, careers talks etc.
I can't stop laughing.
I'll get me coat.
Shall I call the police or do you want to?
It might do :yeees:
:thumb:
i've done other one-off/occasional things too like helping with primary school events hosted at my uni and i'm on a committee actively promoting volunteering to students.
I also volunteer one day a week at YouthNet in the office doing Trust Fundraising which is really enjoyable and interesting.
I also occasionally get roped into doing here and there voluntary work for the hospice charity my parents volunteer for.
I am involved with a few anti-cuts campaigns, both locally and nationally... I have also been involved in some demonstrations on animal rights related issues and anti-fascism, but my most ongoing stuff is anti-cuts.
I'm on the committee of my local Conservative association,
I'm a member of the Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group
and I recently joined Railfuture (The Railway Development Society), which campaigns for, er, more trains.
I guess I do get to shout at them even if it is drill order
I guess I help out in my abilities to blag kit, teach safe shooting and other classroom based stuff like the highly riviting history of flight O.o
I used to walk greyhounds.
I moved and now don't do anything. I contact Greyhound Rescue West of England but unfortunately their kennels are over an hour away from me.
I enjoy it so its not bad, but its not a hobby really. After a greyhounds useful life is over, the dog racers (generally undesirable sorts I've convinced myself) shoot it or leave it in a terrible state to have pups. They are massively neglected because a) its easy to get away with b) the penalties aren't really there to deter and c) not enough people try to change it.
So a few organisations here and there have started up where they approach these dog owners and say, look, we'll home the dog and give it a chance of a life. Most of the owners are indifferent as to how they get rid of the dogs, it saves them digging a hole or whatever I'm sure. Problem is, greyhounds are racing dogs and as such are very high maintenence dogs. You can't rehome them easily, they aren't lap dogs you can give a token walk to the end of the road and back.
But in the rescue centre the paid staff barely have time to do all the necessary home visits / vet trips / rescues let alone give the dogs the exercise they need. That's where an army of volunteers comes in. Walking dogs that want to pull you round the countryside, in pairs of two, picking up all the poop and then taking the next dog out, until every dog gets a good walk. And the next day you need a second army of volunteers. And so on.
I really enjoyed doing it though as the dogs even though they pulled like a bitch you could tell they enjoyed it so much. A lot of them might never get re-homed because there just isn't the demand for racing dogs in the home, and with puppy farms churning out piles of cute fluff for people to take home without thinking about what happens in a puppy farm, these forgotten dogs really cherish just having someone there to give them 10 minutes a few times a week so they can go outside and sniff some poop.
I am trying to find a work that involves animals, and when and if i do find a job i would like to still keep going there. I made lots of friends there:)