The theme for this year’s Recycle Now week focuses on old electrical items: you know, those things we’ve all got hidden away at the back of cupboards, or shoved in drawers – that Walkman that was state-of-the-art back in the 80s, or the 1970s ghetto blaster you just can’t bear to throw away because you saved up for it for months!
Volunteering opportunities can be sourced from the Volunteers’ Week website which provides inspiration for work in such diverse areas as the Justice System, Environmental Health, Defence Volunteering, Emergency Services and the Arts.
These newer choices can be found alongside the popular alternatives of working in Charity Shops, fundraising, volunteering with animals, or working within the community.
It also works with employers of businesses to run formal employer-supported volunteering programmes.
National Transplant Week – 4th July to 11th July 2010
When the parents of five-year-old Lucy Pearson were told that their daughter, who was born with a complex congenital heart condition, would not benefit from further surgery and that they should try to enjoy the remaining years they had with her, they refused to accept defeat.
Lucy was put on the transplant register in late 2005 and a suitable donor was found the following year.
Origins of the modern Father’s Day are attributed to several sources, but it’s most likely that we have to thank a young lady called Sonora Smart Dodd, who lived in Spokane in Washington in the early twentieth century.
The story goes that whilst listening to a Mother’s Day sermon at the local church, Sonora was inspired to arrange a tribute for her own father – a Civil War veteran named William Jackson Smart – who had raised a family of six Continue reading Father’s Day: A Tie for the Guy? | June 20th 2010
Armed Forces Day was instituted to replace Veteran’s Day, observed since 2006.
The date of 27th June was chosen as the day after the anniversary of the first investiture ceremony for the Victoria Cross by Queen Victoria, held in Hyde Park on 26th June 1857.
A special flag based on the Union Jack was designed by the government for the occasion which is organised by councils and businesses.
The most interesting thing about St Swithin’s life in fact came after his death.
Because he believed himself unworthy to be buried in a church, he issued posthumous orders that his body be buried outside in a “vile” place where “it might be subject to the feet of passers-by and to the raindrops pouring from on high”.
And so he was duly buried outside the west door of the Old Minster at Winchester.
World Environment Day 2010 – Many Species. One Planet. One Future.
In 2010 the theme “Many Species. One Planet. One Future.” reflects the multiplicity of species and ecosystems in the world, as well as the importance of preserving its environmental richness.
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