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Teaching and Projects Abroad - Places paying volunteers in work experience projects in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Programmes cover a large number of specialities including teaching, medicine and archaeology. Brochure requests, faqs and case histories.
Charity Choice - Directory of charities, charity services and volunteer donations. Includes a "goodwill gallery" for volunteers to offer their services.
Volunteering England - Information and advice for those who manage volunteers and for people considering doing voluntary work.
TOC H - Building a fairer society by working with communities to promote friendship and service, confront prejudice and practise reconciliation. Details of volunteer opportunities, local centres, current activity programme with pictures and links to the international section. Registered charity.
Forum 3 - Annual careers fair for the not-for-profit and voluntary sector. Information for exhibitors and visitors, with registration and maps.
CSV Environment - Offers people of all ages and backgrounds the opportunity to get involved in local environmental projects. Most of the projects are based in Birmingham and Bristol.
National Association of Councils for Voluntary Service - A network of Councils for Voluntary Service (CVS) throughout England. Advice, information, publications, training, events, news and resources. Includes directory of local CVS throughout UK.
Do-it - UK volunteer vacancies. Type your postcode for a list of vacancies in your area generated from tens of thousands of records.
Community Service Volunteers - Charity dedicated to giving everyone the chance to play an active part in their community through volunteering, training, education and the media.
Reach - Helping voluntary organisations by recruiting and supporting experienced men and women and placing them in part-time, unpaid roles with nearby voluntary organisations throughout the UK - for free.
The Experience Corps - Encouraging people, aged between 50 and 65, to offer their skills and experience to help others in their local communities, and providing support services to volunteer organisations and those seeking voluntary work.
TimeBank - A national campaign to raise the awareness of the value of giving time and inspire a new generation of volunteers. Includes a Contacts Directory, FAQ, stories and campaigns.
Biotrax - Agency for volunteers for clinical trials shows joining details, FAQs about trials, and contact details.
Womens Royal Voluntary Service (WRVS) - WRVS is one of the UK's largest voluntary services Dedicated to tackling social isolation or deprivation in communities throughout England, Scotland and Wales. Over 100,000 volunteers, including 13,000 men.
National Mentoring Network - Updates on the latest national developments in mentoring, plus information on support services offered by the NMN - National Mentoring Network and membership details.
Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme in Scotland - Aims to promote and support voluntary action in the community by older volunteers. Information on how to join and on the general principles of the organization.
IT For Communities - Matches companies and professionals in the IT industry with local charities and projects which need their expertise as volunteers. Includes case studies, information for charities and volunteers, and a discussion forum.
REACH - A charity bringing together voluntary organisations and experienced people who want to offer their career skills as volunteers. Information for volunteers and for organisations.
Employee Volunteering - Practical information for individuals, businesses, public sector bodies, and charity or community groups interested in employee volunteering. Includes case studies.
Institute for Volunteering Research - The Institute aims to develop knowledge and understanding of volunteering. The site contains summaries of recent research and information on the journal, Voluntary Action.
National Association of Volunteer Bureaux - With information on where to volunteer, how to find local offices and other volunteering information.
Volunteers Week - The UK's annual celebration of volunteering. An opportunity for organisations to recognise reward and recruit volunteers.
Post Games Volunteer Project - Aims to provide a wide range of quality opportunities in volunteering in the Greater Manchester area, building on the momentum and good will of the Commonwealth Games.
Worldwide Volunteering - Database application containing details of worldwide volunteering opportunities. Fee based services.
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen Volunteering For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan Volunteering "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. Volunteering Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert Volunteering Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Volunteering When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Volunteering And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle Volunteering When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Volunteering One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain Volunteering Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson Volunteering The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck Volunteering All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Volunteering Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous Volunteering >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Volunteering "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Volunteering Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln Volunteering "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton Volunteering "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau Volunteering "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain Volunteering Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Volunteering Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde Volunteering I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi Volunteering
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