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Latest Articles   Westminster Awards Scheme 2012 We are now inviting nominations for our 2012 Westminster Awards Volunteering Scheme. Now in its second year, the aim of the scheme is to recoginse the outstanding work work of volunteeers in our community with an additional category for organisations More ... Volunteer Centre Westminster Statistics - April-September 2011 During the six month period from April to September 2011 the volunteer centre saw its continuous demand for its volunteering services. Across all our projects over 3,300 individuals registered an interest in volunteering More ... Older People Befriending Scheme For the past 9 months, Volunteering for a Healthier Westminster has been piloting a volunteer befriending scheme for older patients of the Victoria Medical Centre and Dementia Service. Many of those are enjoying regular trips to places of interest More ... Learning Disability Project The Centre's Learning Disability Project established in 1996, like many other services in our area, awaits news of future funding. It is the Centre's 2nd longest standing project which assists an average of 60 adults with learning disabilities More ... Community Map Magi Basil one of our long standing volunteers was placed with Westminster City Councils communications department helping to publicise the Westminster community map, this is a new intiative designed to encourage local residents to volunteer in their area More ... Volunteer Managers Forum and Good Practice A Volunteer managers forum was held on 9th Novenber and was attended by 12 organisations. The theme of the forum was Dealing with Difficult Volunteers, Concerns, Problems and Solutions. More ... Investing in Volunteers In October, Volunteer Centre Westminster successfully renewed Investing in Volunteers (IiV), the UK quality standard for good practice in volunteer management is available to all organisations that involve volunteers in their work More ... VolEmploy Mentoring VCW VolEmploy mentoring has commenced providing mentoring and volunteering support to unemployed individuals living in Westminster with the support of Big Lottery Fund and involving employees as volunteer mentors. More ... Digital T.V. Outreach Project TV across the UK going digital. The existing analogue TV signal will be switched off in London in May 2012 and replaced with a new stronger signal. The switchover help scheme being run by the BBC helps everyone aged 75 or over, or eligible disabled by a More ... Volunteer Brokerage News In addition to the drop in service open five days a week to the public at our offices in Praed Street, we have started outreach work throughout the borough. Since September 2011 it has enabled us to help more than 600 Westminster residents or people who More ... City Transformed through Sport Saman Jafar, a volunteer football coach for Kyu-Yo-Bu-Shin won the 'Active Volunteer' award at Westminster City Councils Active Westminster Awards, held at Lord's Cricket Ground on 18th Novemebr 2011. More ... Event Summary- Opening Doors: innovating ways to support the community from the workplace Time and Talents' workshop brought together reps from business, education, government and charities to hear some successful workplace volunteering projects to consider ways in to help the local community and benefit their own staff More ... Press release: Volunteering in your workplace event This event is for leaders from businesses and charities to share their experiences and ideas around employee volunteering within the workplace. This is a great way to learn more about this topic, about each other and also contribute your own thoughts More ... Training for Volunteer Involving Organisations Our training is provided in collaboration with Central London Volunteer Centres and can help those who manage and coordinate volunteers More ... Volunteer Mentors are needed Can you spare 1 or 2 hours per week as a mentor empowering unemployed individuals to build confidence in breaking barriers of their un-employability issues and develop positive life skills? More ... Invitation to our AGM and Showcase on 22.09.2011 Volunteer Centre Westminster invites you to its Annual General Meeting and a showcase of its community services and projects, including films, presentations and information stands. More ... What do you think about us? VCW Survey We are currently conducting a short online survey of users to find out what they think about the services and support that we provide. More ... Add your volunteering opportunities to the new Community Map VCW has been working with Westminster City Council to produce an online map of volunteering opportunities in Westminster. More ... Find out about our Employer Supported Volunteering project We have put together a short report detailing an exciting year of volunteering activity with our employer and community organisation partners. More ... Become a member of the Volunteer Centre Last year more than 200 organisations benefitted from our membership services and we would like to encourage all volunteer involving organisations to become members and benefit from our range of services. More ...

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