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National Volunteers Week runs 1-7 June 2019
1-7 June marks the 35th annual National Volunteers' Week, a celebration across the UK of all the fantastic contributions volunteers
Nursery Pupils Bring Care Home Residents Joie de Vivre
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Red Bag Helps Keep Everything at Hand
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Film Clip shows the Benefit of One Good Adult
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Care Services Previously Provided by Cordia Honoured with Care Inspectorate Award
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LGBT Charter Bronze Award for Youth Health Service
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Vounteers' Week Celebrations
Volunteers’ Week is an annual celebration of the fantastic contribution that millions of volunteers make across the UK. To mark this event and thank their volunteers North West Locality staff organised an award ceremony and lunch for volunteers followed by a visit to the Tall Ship, Riverside.
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Helping Carers know their Rights - Carer's Act Launch Event
Around eighty carers from across Glasgow came to the City Chambers on 3 April for the Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership's event to launch the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 which takes effect from 1 April 2018.
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Partnership Signs Up to the Glasgow Volunteering Charter
There is good evidence that volunteering brings benefits to both the person volunteering and the people and organisations they support. Volunteering means choosing to spend time unpaid doing something to help other people or groups, other than (or as well as) close relatives.
![Picture of Fiona Moss and Bernadette Monaghan](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Fiona%20Moss%20and%20Bernadette%20Monaghan%20cropped%202.jpg)
Young People Vote for Local Projects
On 18 January 2018 the 'Big Grant Giveaway' was hosted at the Tramway Theatre. 12 projects from across South Glasgow presented their youth-led ideas to an audience of 200 local young people with the hope of securing up to £3000, to see their ideas become a reality.
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