This year as part of Age Awareness Week, the Unlocking Potential project is holding a One Good Reason action day and inviting groups to give their time for 1 day only to support local charity and voluntary organisations (read more )

Exciting new opportunity to volunteer over the summer. Newtownabbey Borough Council is looking for volunteers to act as guides for visitors and school groups for its hosting of an exhibition called Anne Frank + You at Mossley Mill (read more )

My name is Leanne Donaghy and I am 24 years old. I got involved in volunteering when I turned 16 in February 2002. My first volunteer role was in Save The Children charity shop in Bangor. I volunteered there for six years in total. Throughout my time there I gained a lot of experience. (read more)

Joanna Jones, 32 from Lisburn has been a volunteer with Guide Dogs for over four years ever since she completed a tandem sky dive for the charity and wanted to get more involved. (read more )

When I first started volunteering with CVNI I had no interest in conservation work, I didn't even want to get my hands dirty, but that all changed. I have gained qualifications I didn't think I would get and I have never looked back and I would recommend volunteering to anybody. (read more )