Volunteering

Volunteers are members of the community who freely give-up a few hours of their time every week to help a charity or club in their area in the general activities that they are doing to help them improve civic life.

Here are the first sixteen of the fifty ways in which you can become a more active citizen!

1.      Assist your local Youth Club with activities being organised.
2.      Nominate someone for the JCI Outstanding Young Person competition.
3.      Contact your local school to see if they need assistance running a project.
4.      Pay a visit to a local elderly person and ask is there anything you can do for them.
5.      Join your local resident's association.
6.      Start a Neighbourhood Watch programme.
7.      Visit senior citizens at a nursing home.
8.      Help cook and/or serve a meal at a homeless shelter.
9.      Walk dogs for your local animal shelter.
10.  Volunteer on a helpline.
11.  Teach at an adult literacy centre.
12.  Participate in a marathon for your favourite charity.
13.  Volunteer for a sports club.
14.  Register your details on the Volunteer.ie Website and start volunteering.
15.  Contact your local branch of Meals on Wheels and offer to help.
16.  Join your local Junior Chamber International (JCI) Branch.

If you think you would like to do one of these just hit the pledge button and YOU can start to get active!!!