Sunday, 10 March 2013

Volunteering Coordinator Verity McCrum talks about our new project London Adventures and her experiences as a Coordinator

UCLU’s Student Action for Refugees have started STAR London Adventures, a group befriending project with a local community centre. Identifying isolation and lack of confidence as prohibitive problems among the centre’s refugee and migrant service-users, we are helping to organise weekly trips to locations in London. 

As the Project Coordinator for STAR I have received project manager training, worked closely with a range of stakeholders, including local refugees and migrants, and set-up a project with a strong basis in research. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead and develop a project, recruit volunteers, work with a range of professionals and make a real difference to the wellbeing of service-users. 

As a young society, there are also opportunities to start further volunteering opportunities with the help of the STAR head office and UCLU's Volunteering Service Unit.

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