MV

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just out of interest, does anyone here take part in Millennium Volunteers? or is it just me? <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/frown.gif"&gt;

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Absolutely no idea what it is... care to enlighten?

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voluntary organisation - you register any hours of voluntary work you do, and if you get 100 hrs in a year you get a hat, 200 hrs you get a certificate from the home secretary or something. i've only done about 20 hrs, over about 6 months. designed to get young people more involved with the community through voluntary work. great, if you like that kinda thing <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;

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Sounds cool, how do you get involved?

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if u're interested, contact http://www.millenniumvolunteers.gov.uk/

that should give you all the info necessary.

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i do it ive got a feeling it is only cornwall at the mo its a very good thing i do it and i enjoy it how long av u all been doing it? i live in cornwall1

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from what I can see on the website it's pretty much all over the country...

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if in doubt-dance.

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Shame, it's not for old farts like me.

peacechild

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if u wana get involved talk 2 your local council and they will tell u if it is running in your area.

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completed my 200 hours last week! yay! thats a shedload of vol in just 1 year. (sorry, bragging!)

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Well done 2 u! Ive decided 2 volunteer myself after hearing about it on this site. My info pack is on its way snail-mail! Its about time I did something useful 4 a change.
Congrats again and I hope that soon I'll b able 2 b proud that Ive done all those hours helping others! <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;

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welldone 4 getting involved its great fun!

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I wanted to take part in that, but where I live the only things available are cleaning old peoples houses during the day - while Im at school, and litter collecting in your community. Time Bank is much better (www.timebank.co.uk / org.uk I think) they do all sorts of deals - even abroad. From a week to 2 years!!! They send you a free pack with loads of ideas and stuff you can do, it's Waaaaayyyyyyy better than MV.
Andrea x

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Ahhhhhhhhhh but do-it is even better.... www.do-it.org.uk

Susie <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;


[This message has been edited by Susie (edited 16-11-2001).]

[This message has been edited by Susie (edited 16-11-2001).]

Former Member

MV is (or is supposed to be) country wide - and they are supposed to find you something you are interested in, aswell as it helping your community.

Plus the great thing is you get something great to put on your CV

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i do st john ambulance and all my hours with that goes toward MV and i dont have to do anything extra so i expect to have two hundred hours within two monts easily with the masses of work i do!

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I think Susie meant www.do-it.org.uk

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I've used www.do-it.org.uk to get voluntary work and found it really useful, in fact a bit too useful, there was so much stuff out there that I found it tricky to make choice.

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yep i did, sorry people

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The advantage of MV theoretically is that you should be able to count hours from any volunteering activity and get basic expenses paid like travel and basic training (although this may be area specific - I know that I should able to under the scheme for the Hampshire area administered by YMCA Fairthorne)

Its only a shame more people haven't been involved or had the chance to get involved in MV, as it recieved quite substantial funding from goverment iirc and unfortuntatly in most areas not as many people as expected have signed up to it.

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What kind of voluntary work do you lot do?
I am also intersted in doing voluntary work but am gonna wait till I leave school. And when I leave college I want to be an international volunteer... <IMG alt="image" SRC="smile.gif" border="0">

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I've ended up doing loads of work with Youth Rights and participation, which has been really interesting if a little tough on the brain. Although the volunteering I enjoyed most was being involved in the Soul Survivor (festivals not film) mission in Manchester, which was just working on an estate for five days in the summer cleaning and building new facilities in a park for the community. T'was hard work but a really rewarding experience.

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I have volunteered with MV for maybe eight months...started after doing work experience in The Bournemouth offices. It's really cool. I am wiv this peer led Dj skool project. I've done 100 hours and on Monday next we are having a celebration event. Cool! And I'm doing some training too. It looks really good on your Cv/NRA and it's a great way of meeting new people. Oh yeah...wanna say HI to all Mv's in Bmth! xxx

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Yeah the travel fees are paid in my area South-east!
Im doin Hospital Voluntary work, Sign language and am treasurer of a Youth Committee! But What I have always wanted to do is St. Johns ambulance but I cant seem to be able to contact them!!

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Ahhhhh!!

srave@talk21.com

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Hi

I ahve just finsh my 200 hours , I take a bit longer to do mine year and 2 months. But I still finsh it. What r other doing are there party ??

sarah