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To view the range of volunteering and employability events taking place during, before and after, National Student Volunteering and National Student Employment Week (February 20th to 26th February) click here
National Student Volunteering Week
20th to 27th February 2012
This National Campaign run by Volunteering England highlights the fantastic volunteering students do whilst at university.
Volunteering is a great way to develop skills and knowledge, improve your employability and gain valuable experience towards your future career, all whilst meeting new friends and having fun!
“Volunteering as a student gives you a unique opportunity to improve your skills and enhance your university experience. Not only can you make a real difference to something you can also develop yourself and put your skills into practice.
With graduate recruiters increasingly asking for more than a degree at their recruitment stages, it is becoming ever more important to show that you have undertaken extra-curricular activities. By volunteering you can become involved in an array of activities that you can showcase on application forms and interviews”.
“Teach First values volunteering because of the skills that are utilised and developed through the experience. At Teach First, we look for eight competencies during our recruitment process, as these help us to determine a candidate’s suitability and potential to be an impactful teacher. These competencies include leadership, resilience, problem-solving – all skills that we often find volunteering can provide good evidence of.” Teach First
If you would like to find out more about the national campaign visit www.volunteering.org.uk
University of Birmingham 2010/2011 Volunteering Statistics:
We currently have 3,842 students volunteering in the local community and within the student body...
- 25 Student Led Volunteering Projects
- 1101 volunteers within the Volunteering Projects
- 1019 committee members running Societies
- 138 external opportunities in community organisations are filled
- 85 Residents Associations volunteers
- 11 Non Sabbatical Officers
- 950 Student reps
- 81 Guild councillors
- 3 on Student Group Committee and 3 on Trustee Board
- 18 regularly volunteering through Intra-League
- 143 registered event volunteers
- 290 committee members within University sport clubs
Totalling – 3,842 volunteers!
So far over 29,300 hours have been submitted by volunteers; 12,900 by Residents' Associations alone and 7,700 by students volunteering within the local community.
Student Group currently leading is: Maple Bank RA 2010-2011 with 3960.25 hours
Current student who have submitted the most: Natalie Wright 1134.5 hours as Maple Bank RA
To find out about some of our dedicated volunteers click on the case studies below:
International Student – Darja Valujeva
Disabled Students – Jen Lines and Joes Evans
Post Graduate Student – Tim Lucas
Post Graduate Student - Grace Garner
New volunteer - Dave Charles
