Volunteers Week 2020
This year the NCVO the organisers of Volunteers Week have taken
the difficult decision not to go ahead with all the usual things for
Volunteers’ Week. Their focus is on
supporting volunteers to take on coronavirus-related volunteering roles to help
communities cope with the many consequences of coronavirus.
However, that does not mean that volunteers are no longer
important even though they may not being carrying out the things they normally
would. Once the countryside is opened up again and lockdown mostly lifted the
work of the many thousands of countryside voluntary groups will be needed more
than ever. Despite the current
restrictions and limitations enforced on us social distancing and working from
home there are still many things you can be doing to help our countryside and
conservation organisations, especially the charities many of whom are
struggling with significant financial constraints as so many events and
fundraising activities are not compliant with current rules and have had to be
postponed or even cancelled.
What can you do?
- Many organisations have been able to convert their activities to fit in with working from home. You can see what's currently available on the Volunteering From Home pages.
- Most of the wildlife recording programmes and citizen science projects are still accepting, and indeed welcome, records, to see these start here.
- Find out about Volunteering by dipping into our library ofin depth articles about volunteering covering everything from the benefits of volunteering to how organisations can best set up volunteering programmes.
- And see which organisations are operating in your area and what types of volunteering they offer here.