CSV Make a Difference Day brings together over 150 voluntary organisations  and over 100,000 people who want to volunteer their time. Look at what they acheived in 2005:

• Animals: Spitalfields City Farm called on volunteers to come look after farm animals, and paint signs for a nature trail.

• Children & Young People: Pitshanger Community Playcentre asked Kim Wilde and other local volunteers to repaint the play centre and sort donated toys

• People with disabilities: university students painted a mural at the Hillingdon Hospital Assessment Centre for children with special needs

• Environment: a multi-ethnic group of volunteers helped the Council for National Parks beautify parts of the Brecon Beacons

• Ethnic minorities: The Bill's Cyril Nri and volunteers from refugee communities repainted the Refugee Council building

• Homeless people: Paul Goggins worked with volunteers to sort clothes and make tea for homeless people in Victoria

• Health: 1,000 of knitters rallied to knit outfits to keep premature babies warm

• Local community: GMTV designer, Andrea Maflin  and a team of young martial artists renovated Fatshan Martial Arts Centre in Tottenham

• Older People: youth groups and school children became volunteer befrienders at Jewish Care's elderly residents care home

Take advantage of CSV Make a Difference Day 2006 to recruit long-term volunteers, connect with other community groups, start or finish a project, or gain publicity for your existing activities.

Contact
Mukta Das
mdas@csv.org.uk
Tel: 020 7643 1357