My role at the University of Cumbria Students’ Union is ‘Volunteering Facilitator’ which involves supporting and encouraging students to volunteer. I help students find places to volunteer in the community, I coordinate volunteering project days and I support volunteers to set up and run their own... [more]

As we approach the end of Volunteers Week here in the UK, we've seen much sharing of activities and tons of banners and bunting; badges, customary certificates, cake and even silly hats. I've also felt privileged to read some of the brilliant stories from individuals about why they volunteer and... [more]

Pretty short one this. The last 12 months has seen unprecedented change in the criminal record checking regime. The latest of these changes can be read about here on the DBS webpages: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service In summary On June 17th the long awaited... [more]