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Mental Health, Uranium Mining, and Environmental Campaigning - All in a day's Volunteering! - Nigel's Story

Hi all,

Welcome to part two of our Macc mini stories. Volunteering has been influential in helping to shape the career paths for a lot of the team here at Macc and we wanted to share them with you through our blog.

Last time we heard from Claire and next up we have Nigel Rose. Nigel is the Strategic Lead (Commissioning) at Macc and has been with us for 4 years. Nigel has a really varied and interesting volunteer history which spans over 30 years. check out Nigel's story below!

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Confident, happy, to isolated and lonely and how I turned it around - Claire's Story

Hello all,

As you may be aware we recently celebrated ‘Student Volunteering Week 2017’ and as part of the week we invited guests to share their volunteering stories with us via our blog.
The posts were great and it was really interesting to learn about the impact volunteering had, in particular, on the career choices for those involved.

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Student Volunteering Week 2017: UoM - Guest Blog 2

Hello all,

Here is our second blog this week as part of Student Volunteering Week 2017. Today's post is from the Volunteering and Community Engagement Team, at The University of Manchester.

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Student Volunteering Week 2017: Christian Sinclair - Guest Blog

Hello all,

As part of Student Volunteering Week 2017, Volunteer Centre Manchester is welcoming Guest Blogs from people who undertake volunteering and those who manage and support said activity. Today we have a great blog from Christian Sinclair.

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Listen to the Macc team host their own show on ALL FM

On Valentine’s Day members of the Macc team, took part in a pilot radio training course at ALL FM, in Levenshulme. It was a thoroughly enjoyable team building day, and was led by the wonderful Jason and Annie from ALL FM. All FM

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‘If we are to build a truly shared society, we cannot do so without volunteering.’

A couple of weeks ago, I came across an interesting blog post entitled Stuart Etherington’s New Year Letter to the Sector which gave his thoughts, as NCVO Chief Executive, on the potential challenges for the voluntary sector in 2017 and beyond.

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Macc's response to the Our Manchester VCS Funding Consultation - Why choose the Manchester wide option?

In 2011 Manchester took the decision to address the fragmented VCSE infrastructure in the city by combining it into a single body. Effectively this arrangement has only been in place since 2012 and has already been re-tendered once (where Macc was the successful bidder).

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Holland’s offers Canteen Kit Out for North West community groups, businesses and households

Community groups, workplaces and households across the North West are being given the chance to win a ‘Canteen Kit Out’ this winter, after research* has revealed that just 38 per cent of locals take a regular lunchbreak. Hollands

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10 top tips to volunteering!

Hello all,

Here's to a great week!

Just quickly, last week we shared with you some information on how you can get involved with Volunteering in and around Manchester.

To follow that up, this week we’d like to share with you our 10 top tips (In no particular order) to help make your volunteering journey an enjoyable experience.

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Santander Internship Programme

The University of Salford has partnered with Santander to offer internship opportunities to University of Salford students and graduates. The internships duration will be between 1 and 10 weeks with the intern working on a full-time or part-time basis. Full time positions are based on a 35 hour week.