by Guest | 22 Mar 2021 | Active Neighbours, Communities & Volunteering
âIn the past Iâve done very much paper-based volunteering, because I guess thatâs where my skills lie – but maybe Iâve realised that I quite enjoy meeting people and having that interaction. In particular, I think Iâve enjoyed meeting people that are outside my social circle – because you know, weâre all guilty of having our own little group […], so seeing that people have very different lives – not better or worse, just different, you know – I think has been really interesting for me.â
by Guest | 22 Mar 2021 | Active Neighbours, Communities & Volunteering
âI think itâs an interesting one actually for people of my age – single men. At my age – thereâs a question of âwhat are you allowed to join?â that will be positively received? […] Thereâs a sort of suspicion. But the Covid thing – I think what I really liked about it was the sense that anyone could join and we couldnât see what each other looked like – we didnât know how old we were. We didnât know what social background we were from, we werenât even talking to one another – because it was all text-based. And so in that sense it was a great leveler, I thought.â
by Guest | 22 Mar 2021 | Active Neighbours, Communities & Volunteering
âAnd getting out of your own comfort zone a bit ⌠empathy more than sympathy was somebody elseâs phrase ⌠trying to help people out not just because they are like you or because theyâve been through what you’ve been through, but because they just need a bit of help. That to me is what citizenship and community are about.â
by Guest | 22 Mar 2021 | Active Neighbours, Communities & Volunteering
âAs a charity on your own, you canât cover everything. So what has been good with a lot of the response in terms of the pandemic has been the fact that charities and faith-based groups and other groups have got together rather than saying, âOh we wanna do it all.ââ
by David Robinson and Tony Clements | 21 Oct 2020 | Communities & Volunteering, Covid and Relationships, Relational Councils
In brief Continuing with the work on Developing the Framework for councils to support community action, David Robinson and Tony Clements invite you to share examples of changing council practices that ‘let people in’ and join the conversation about how...
by Leonie Shanks | 15 Oct 2020 | Communities & Volunteering, Covid and Relationships
Shift Researcher Leonie Shanks invites us to explore who the 10m community âvolunteersâ were who stepped up to support their communities through Covid, and how we can maintain this energy and commitment going forwards.
