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Sunday Jan 18, 2009
Volunteering: Where do you do it?
Greetings blog readers,
Just wanted to let you in on a little do-it.org.uk experiment we'll be running from later this week, and take this opportunity to ask for your help.
We know anecdotally and from the do-it.org.uk statistics that there's a whole lot of volunteering going on out there.
Perhaps your organisation works with some of these volunteers. Perhaps you're a volunteer yourself. Either way, we'd love you to get involved.
We're going to be asking people to take photos of themselves volunteering and (to keep with the do-it.org.uk theme) holding up signs which say 'I'm doing it in [location]' or 'I'm doing it at [organisation name]. Here's one of me from earlier this weekend, which relates to last summer's volunteer stewarding adventures.
To get things started, we're going to need some early submissions – and that's where we'd like you to come in. If you're volunteering or working with volunteers over the next couple of weeks, why not take an 'I'm doing it' picture? Make sure you get permission from any people in the background of your shot, and then either upload it to Flickr, tagged doitpic, or email it along with your first name or a pseudonym to marketing(at)youthnet.org and we'll add it to the collection.
Even if you're not a volunteer yourself, we'd be very grateful if you could pass the message on. Tell your friends, tell your family. Tweet it; facebook status it; blog about it. Help us create a picture in pictures of the diversity of volunteering opportunities available in the UK today.
We look forward to seeing (and sharing) the results.
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