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Volunteer Team Knit for Oxfam

The Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services' Volunteer Team (known as the 'V' Team) has knitted and crocheted eighty 9 inch squares since April. The squares will be sent to Oxfam to make a giant blanket of 250,000 squares knitted by people across the UK . Each square will represent a pregnant woman who would have survived to care for her baby if she had received the basic medical care she needed. Oxfam will present the giant blanket to the UK Government ahead of an important meeting in September, where world leaders will discuss progress on the Millennium Development Goals aimed at halving world poverty by 2015. After it has been presented the giant blanket will be divided into smaller blankets and sold at Oxfam shops and festivals to raise money.

Some of the V Team couldn't even knit or crochet when the project began. The more experienced knitters helped the learners by teaching them in their lunch breaks and even taught each other different, more complicated, stitches. Much of the wool used was from remnants donated by members of staff or bought from local charity shops.

If you are interested in any kind of volunteering please visit the Volunteering pages.

Network Wales Awards

Are you inspired by the work of

voluntary organisations across Wales?

Do you know of an organisation or group

that deserves national recognition for what it does?

Does your organisation or group

deserve national recognition for what you do?

Nominate them for the Network Wales Awards 2008!

The Awards

The Network Wales Awards have been established

to promote and recognise the work of voluntary organisations across Wales.

Each nominated organisation will receive a certificate of commendation and the winners will be presented with a Network Wales Award at WCVA’s annual conference dinner on Thursday 27 November 2008.

Categories

There are two categories in which you can nominate your own organisation and a third to nominate another organisation.

Category 1 – Class award for best communications. Does your organisation have an effective or innovative way of communicating its message? Or in communicating internally, or with your members, service users or volunteers?

Category 2 – Green award

Has your organisation got an innovative policy on reducing its carbon footprint? Have you taken steps to become more sustainable or taken part in a carbon footprint reducing activity?

Category 3 – Most admired organisation On the whole, which voluntary organisation or group do you admire most for the causes it represents and the work it does? Nominate an organisation and tell us why.

What do you need to do?

• Read the rules of the scheme.

• Get the permission of your Director or Chair before   

   nominating your own organisation (Directors and Chairs can

   also nominate) in category 1 or 2.

• Get the permission of the Director or Chair of the

   organisation you are nominating in category 3.

• Complete the nomination form: only make one nomination

   per nomination form. If you wish to nominate in another    

   category.                                                                                 

Nomination form (Eng)      Nomination form(Cym)

• Return it by Friday 19 September 2008 to:

   Network Wales Awards

   WCVA

   Baltic House

   Mount Stuart Square

   Cardiff CF10 5FH

'A Night to Remember'

PAVS AGM, December 2007

PAVS' AGM, held in Withybush Pavillion on December 12th, was an evening of information, celebration and an opportunity to look at how the voluntary sector in Pembrokeshire has changed over the last 10 years.

The business of the AGM was followed with a look back through the years by some of PAVS' founding Trustees, a presentation around the delivery plan for the future and an interactive quiz, which all contributed to a very informative and enjoyable event.

During the evening, attendees were invited to take part in digital recordings about what makes them proud of their organisation and what barriers there are to doing more.

To view and listen to any of the recordings, click on the titles below.

	Angie Tinley from The Hive talking about the Young People’s Counselling Service. (Transcript - PDF)
	Anne Barrett-Evans, Director of PAVS, talks about the organisation.
	Beryl Thomas-Cleaver talks about PIPPA
	Chris Corcoran - Keeping Wales Tidy
	Richard Morgan - How DSA works with disabled people.
	Valerie Stevenson - talks about the Coalition for people with disabilities.