Wajid
Khan and Zahoor Hussain cut the ribbon to officially open the
Centre for Volunteering and Community Action
A
Lancashire based volunteering unit which supports young people who
want to make a difference in their community celebrated the opening
of their new centre based at the University of Central Lancashire
on Thursday 22 September 2005...
The
Centre for Volunteering and Community Action has introduced
hundreds of young people to a wide range of volunteering
opportunities to suit their interests. Volunteers are
both UCLan students and young people from Lancashire
and Cumbria. The volunteers work with a range of community
groups including school children, disaffected youngsters,
young offenders, the elderly and homeless people to
help make a difference and improve their lives.
Young
people from the Centre have received awards for their
volunteering. In 2003, Phillip Bewley was regional Millennium
Volunteer of the Year, and Marian Yousaf was awarded
the HEACF Student Volunteering Award for her work with
young women in Pendle.
In
2004, UCLan law student Wajid Khan was awarded the Higher
Education Action Community Fund (HEACF) Exceptional
Student of the Year Award for his community cohesion
work in East Lancashire. This year Winnie Chu and Zahoor
Hussian are both finalists in the 2005 Year of the Volunteer
Award, and Bob Walley has been nominated as Health Worker
of the Year for the Red Rose Awards for his work promoting
peer led health education through the Touch Project.
Have
you got a volunteering event that you want to shout
about? Send it in then! Email us at lancashire@bbc.co.uk.
