To celebrate Volunteers Week 2015, Volunteer Centre Salford organised a pop up market, ran the #SalfordVolunteerSelfie campaign and launched round three of the Volunteer Expenses Fund.
The Volunteering Pop Up Market was a great success helping to promote volunteering in Salford and giving groups the chance to showcase what they do and their volunteering opportunities!
See our Storify for highlights of Volunteers' Week in Salford!
There was a great range of Salford groups at the market:
Age UK | Barton Athletic | Beanstalk | Black Health Agency | Bridgewater Canal Project | Citizens Advice Bureau Eccles | City West | ECHO | Greater Manchester Police | Hand on Heart | Healthy Communities Collaborative | Homestart | Incredible Edibles | Involve | Kidscan | Mustard Tree | Northwest Kin Kids | Rainbow Pathways | Red Cross | Sea Cadets | St. Clements Community Centre | Yemeni Community Association | YMCA Manchester / Salford Young Carers
Volunteer Centre Salford support Keep Volunteering Voluntary and promoted the campaign during Volunteers' Week.
£50 gift voucher competition
We ran our volunteer selfie campaign on twitter, this year all selfies were entered into a raffle you can view all the entries at #salfordvolunteerselfie. Congratulations to Home-Start Trafford and Salford who won the £50 gift voucher!
Launch of Volunteer Expenses Fund
Salford CVS celebrated Volunteers' Week 2015 with the launch of round three of the Volunteer Expenses Fund. The Salford Volunteer Expenses Fund is an initiative that Salford small voluntary and community groups (annual income below £100k) can apply for up to £600 in order to meet the cost of paying out volunteer expenses.
Applications have now closed. The next round will be open in the next quarter of the year.