Fingal Volunteer Centre

Newsletter February 2020

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THE LATEST NEWS FROM FINGAL VOLUNTEER CENTRE

Here is our monthly newsletter filled with News, updates and a list of recent volunteer opportunities. Please scroll down to see their role descriptions and remember there are many more on I-VOL if the listed ones are not your cup of tea.

Latest news from Fingal Volunteer Centre:

Outreach programme: If you’re interested in meeting personally one member of our team please come over to our Open Drop-in Sessions or arrange for an appointment (see below);
Quarterly Volunteer Raffle: there’ll be a raffle every 3 months open to all active volunteers. You can enter the raffle logging your actual volunteer hours online or letting us know you volunteered (see below). Ah, the prize? a 25€ Dunnes Voucher! The next deadline: the 31st of March 2020.
Our Social Media: like us and follow us on our social media, pelase check the links below;
UN Sustainable Development Goals: volunteering is definitively a way to improve our society and reach the UN Development Goals;
Event Volunteers: new volunteers opportunities as Event Volunteer are on the horizon, please check below;
Volunteer Opportunities: the latest volunteer opportunities available on I-VOL. Please remember to check their location and time frame before applying.

Volunteer Impact Fingal- VIDEO

Our VISION is for a vibrant Irish society where every person feels connected to their community through active participation in voluntary activities.

Our MISSION is to promote the value of volunteering and and increase the range and quality of volunteering in Ireland.

OUTREACH PROGRAMME

You can come and meet a member of our team to discuss your volunteering options in one of the Fingal Libraries.

Open Drop-in Sessions:

Balbriggan: Tues 25th Feb, 3.30pm-5pm
Blanchardstown: Weds 26th Feb, 3.30pm-5pm
Swords: Thurs 27th Feb, 3.30pm-5pm

For Appointments please telephone 01 8991921 or email chiara@volunteerfingal.ie

Appointments must be made or cancelled at least 24 hours in advance.

QUARTERLY VOLUNTEER RAFFLE

At the end of every quarter (31st March, 30th June, 30th September and 31st December) there’ll be a raffle here in Fingal Volunteer Centre. To get your raffle ticket (or better to get your name in the raffle box…) you simply need to record your effective volunteer hours in 2020.

There are various ways to record your hours:

reply to this email and let me know who you volunteered with and in which role;
reply to our emails when we ask you if you got started in volunteering or not;
log into your own Volunteer Profile and record your hours there (See on the right);
give us a call and share your volunteering experience with us;

If your name is selected you’ll be then contacted by myself or a colleague of mine to confirm your address (we post the voucher directly to your place).

Trying to be fair towards everybody, each given volunteer can win the raffle only once per year.

Sharing your volunteer hours allow us to keep up to date records and data on volunteering in our wide, friendly and altruistic region.

Next Deadline is 31st March 2020.

VOLUNTEER PROFILE

Have you been volunteering?

In 2019 Fingal Volunteers contributed with more than 18.000 volunteer hours!!

That’s a lot and it’s all because of you and your proactiveness in volunteering. Well done to all 2019 volunteers!!

To support you as best as we can It’d pivotal for us to know if you got placed with the organisations you applied to on I-VOL or what.

Having said so, if you register your volunteer hours you’ll automatically enter the Quarterly Volunteer Raffle (See on the left)

Wait no more…and record your hours:

Volunteer profile

Follow us and like us on our Social Media, we’ll follow you back:

Volunteering in your local community is a step towards a fairer and more human society. Please check the link below to read more about the UN Sustainable development Goals. Together we can make the SDGs a reality!

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Event Volunteers provide a mobile event and information service to those attending public events. As a source of information about the event, local facilities and transport links, Event Volunteers role is to make sure visitors to an event have all the information they need to enjoy their time.

EventVolunteers is a joint project of Fingal Volunteer Centre and Voluntee r Ireland and covers the majority of free, social or community events in Fingal County and Dublin City County.

In 2020 we’ll start back with one of the biggest event in Ireland: St.Patrick’s Parade in Swords, co. Fingal.

We’re already recruiting for the event and we’d love to involve you if you have few hours to spare on that Tuesday morning.

For more info, please apply to the role and we’ll send you an email with further details:

Event Volunteers- St.Patricks Festival 2019 (Swords, 17.03.2020)