Cliodhna volunteers with CASA, a nationwide voluntary organisation whose goal is to develop social outlets for people with disabilities. Last year Cliodha helped CASA come up with ideas for a new nationwide fundraising event. Through the use of Facebook, email marketing, and a national PR campaign, Cliodhna helped their small team roll out “Dine in for CASA.” Due to it’s huge success, it’s now an annual event.

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Tony is retired from the Irish Prison Service where he worked for 30 years on projects helping to change management/staff dynamics, improve staff/inmate relationships and introduce programmes for prisoner support and rehabilitation. Today Tony volunteers as a project manager with Living Links, a charity that provides support and outreach to those bereaved by suicide. Tony is responsible for bringing together varying opinions and ideas from across the organisation to define and create clear direction and a working plan for the organisation.

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Gavan is founder of Duffy Design, a Dublin based graphic design consultancy based in Grand Canal Dock. Gavan has worked on projects as a volunteer for a number years.  His first and by far the largest opportunity was with the Special Olympics Games 2003. Design and branding were an integral part in the promotion of the games, the variety of design activities were vast!  More recently volunteers with a small local community and voluntary organisation - the Anchorage Project it provides a pre-school playgroup, a children’s club and a café with internet facilities. Gavan has helped them with brand development and signage and web.

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Maurice acts as a volunteer bookkeeper/accountant for Dun Laoghaire Refugee Project (DRP). The project is wholly run by volunteers, its objective is to help young refugees and asylum seekers. Maurice performs most of the accountancy functions. A key part of his role is to understand all the charity revenue rules, identify which donations may benefit from tax relief and process them accordingly.

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Shane is solicitor with ten years post qualification experience. Shane has volunteered for Amnesty International LGBT, the Simon Community, Adalah – The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel and Special Olympics Ireland. Shane’s firm William Fry acted as pro bono legal advisers for the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games. My team and I drafted legal agreements and advised the organisers of the Games on legal issues. It was good for the charity as they received quality legal advice. It was also good for my firm because everyone who worked on the project found it enormously rewarding and motivating.

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Siobhan is a perfect example of today’s volunteer, highly skilled with a demanding job but more than willing to contribute. Siobhan is a virtual volunteer with Meath Women’s Refuge Support Services (MWRSS). Remote or virtual volunteering roles and short term bursts of volunteering activity suit many people. MWRSS receive proper professional HR support and consultancy as and when they need it, from industrial relations issues and internal staff matters, to employment legislation.

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Marie has worked with a number of community and voluntary organisations as a fundraiser, Her first role was with The Rose Project where she researched different grant and funding sources both internationally and in Ireland. Now Marie volunteers with Children’s Hope, a small community and voluntary organisation which supports disadvantaged or at risk children in the local community. A volunteer fundraiser is literally a lifeline to a small and growing organisation.

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John is an electronic engineer, his local volunteer centre matched him up with SARI (Sport Against Racism Ireland) 3 years ago.  SARI is a small team and like many non profit organisations, it does not have an internal IT support function. It is expensive to outsource PC support and network maintenance on an ongoing basis, as a volunteer IT professional John’s role is therefore important. The work is quite ad-hoc which suits John, it is a flexible relationship but John is committed nonetheless. Without support, IT issues have the potential to disrupt a small team’s productivity.

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Loretta is the volunteer manager for Dunshauglin and Culmullen Pastoral centre. The centre is a fabulous facility and a focal point for all Parish activities. The centre is run and managed entirely by volunteers. Loretta signed up for the volunteer management training course at her local volunteer centre. The course was particularly useful in helping her attract, manage and retain volunteers, it also helped her understand the processes and subtleties of managing unpaid staff.

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Yvonne is the CEO of Volunteer Ireland, a national non profit organisation. Volunteer centres Ireland always involve volunteers too. Not only because, like most non profit organisations, budgets are tight and the workload is demanding but because we believe in the ethos of volunteering. Involving volunteers means we can increase our capacity and provide a better service.

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