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Published Date: 25 October 2007
Pentonville Road,
London.
THROUGHOUT October thousands of people across the country have been giving time to help transform communities by volunteering for Community Service Volunteers' Make a Difference Day.

This year it was linked with the Dare to Care: Make Time to Help End Child Poverty campaign and recruited volunteers to help pupils with their reading, coach disabled children's sports teams and organise fun days out.

So much can be achieved by a single day of action but imagine the impact if millions of people volunteered?

Along with the TUC and other leading volunteering charities we are pushing for the Government to provide an extra Community Day bank holiday which would allow people to take part in projects that benefit their local area.

Readers who wish to support the extra bank holiday can visit www.communityday.org.uk

(Dame) Elisabeth Hoodless
CSV (Executive Director, Community Services Volunteers)



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  • Last Updated: 25 October 2007 10:42 AM
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bm4260,

Elland 25/10/2007 11:26:23
I am unemployed because I have a mental health disability but do regular voluntary work. What concerns me about what is happening in the voluntary sector today and partially this initiative is that some of these so called community activity's up to a few years ago (not all) would have provided employment for an individual or a business for someone. What it appears is happening is that with an increasing number of these activities, some of them essential to maintain the fabric of our society are now expected to be done by the volunteers. As a volunteer myself I am aware of the problems of volunteers doing work that is should done by paid employees. Relying on volunteers to do essential work rather than has been the traditional “icing on the cake” type work is a threat to not only employment but to many activities that would normally be provided by businesses
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PiratePete,

North Halifax 25/10/2007 18:24:37
Fair comment, bm4260. But i daresay that the council (who would probably be the ones paying the wages) would rather not pay a wage if there are willing volunteers. Also, shouldn't this kind of work be covered by people serving community service?
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bm4260,

Elland 26/10/2007 05:48:26
Good point PiratePete - A lot of people I have met in the voluntary sector have become involved through community service and a lot surprisingly get involved via employment training schemes run for unemployed people who find they are unable to find work. The last point particularly applies to lot of people who have had mental health problems like me who are in the voluntary sector because they find they are unable to find work, and want something to do with there lives. When you look at the people in voluntary sector in the UK you quickly realise that there is a long standing underling problem in employment practice and recruitment in the UK towards certain groups of people by many employers.
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