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Newest Review: ... outdoor ball games. The kids loved doing the pipe cleaner models, making animals, names and jewellery and so highly recommend for any volunteers out there reading this. The amount of planning that needs to go into one 3-hour session was the first thing that surprised me. It took me a long time to decide what we were going to do and then all the things that need to be followed up took even longer. I needed to contact all the other volunteers, get a shopping list of the things I would need and talk to Rache l about what other things needed doing to name a few.... more

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My Experiences and Advice: Tougher than it looks (1116 words)
by - written on 09/05/02, updated on  09/05/02 (Very useful, 43 readings)
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This category is here for people to share their experience and advice about organising some aspect of volunteering. Tonight was my first time in charge of the kid’s project I volunteer with at university and although it was hard work first time round I had a good time. A girl called Rachel usually runs the project, she organises everything every week and it is her job I did tonight. How did I end up running it then? To ease the load slightly and provide a bit of insurance if Rachel was ever ill, we (the volunteers) received an e-mail asking if we were interested in becoming a deputy project leader. I replied and as far as I know no-one else wanted the job ...  Read the complete review