"Some projects weren't sure what volunteering should look like," said active development officer Dave Phillips. "We therefore decided to provide a day for them to look in some detail at a contemporary version of young people's volunteering. We aimed to challenge the traditional notion of volunteering being stuffy and boring, and instead look more at how we see volunteering - project-based work, bite-sized opportunities and the idea of young people designing things for themselves. We got the projects thinking about how the work they were doing could be reframed and adapted."
Feedback on the day was extremely positive, with projects developing concrete and measurable action plans for future activities. "We asked people to think about what they'd do when they got back, practices they might set up or things they might do differently, and to set medium-term targets," adds Phillips. "People had a good time on the day and hopefully in a year's time they will be able to reflect and look back on some very positive changes."
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