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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.
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