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  1. This Saturday, 9/19, is #CoastalCleanupDay! Join volunteers at cleanups across the Bay Area working together to stop trash before it reaches the Bay and the Ocean.

    Our cleanup is full, but there are lots of other cleanup groups still looking for volunteers: coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/cc

    #CaliforniaCoastalCleanupDay #bayarea #volunteering #trash #trashcleanup #beachcleanup

  2. This Saturday, 9/19, is #CoastalCleanupDay! Join volunteers at cleanups across the Bay Area working together to stop trash before it reaches the Bay and the Ocean.

    Our cleanup is full, but there are lots of other cleanup groups still looking for volunteers: coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/cc

    #CaliforniaCoastalCleanupDay #bayarea #volunteering #trash #trashcleanup #beachcleanup

  3. This Saturday, 9/19, is #CoastalCleanupDay! Join volunteers at cleanups across the Bay Area working together to stop trash before it reaches the Bay and the Ocean.

    Our cleanup is full, but there are lots of other cleanup groups still looking for volunteers: coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/cc

    #CaliforniaCoastalCleanupDay #bayarea #volunteering #trash #trashcleanup #beachcleanup

  4. This Saturday, 9/19, is #CoastalCleanupDay! Join volunteers at cleanups across the Bay Area working together to stop trash before it reaches the Bay and the Ocean.

    Our cleanup is full, but there are lots of other cleanup groups still looking for volunteers: coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/cc

    #CaliforniaCoastalCleanupDay #bayarea #volunteering #trash #trashcleanup #beachcleanup

  5. This Saturday, 9/19, is #CoastalCleanupDay! Join volunteers at cleanups across the Bay Area working together to stop trash before it reaches the Bay and the Ocean.

    Our cleanup is full, but there are lots of other cleanup groups still looking for volunteers: coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/cc

    #CaliforniaCoastalCleanupDay #bayarea #volunteering #trash #trashcleanup #beachcleanup

  6. The Scrap Space, Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton BN1 3XG
    22.9.26 Volunteering Open Day
    5-7pm "This is a dedicated time for anyone interested in volunteering to hang out with us and chat to current volunteers."
    weareoverthemoon.org/thescraps

    #ScrapSpace #Volunteering #Volunteer #SolarPunkSunday #TheScrapSpace #ReUse #Crafts #Sussex #Shoreham #Brighton #UpCycling #Recycling #Textiles

  7. The Scrap Space, Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton BN1 3XG
    22.9.26 Volunteering Open Day
    5-7pm "This is a dedicated time for anyone interested in volunteering to hang out with us and chat to current volunteers."
    weareoverthemoon.org/thescraps

    #ScrapSpace #Volunteering #Volunteer #SolarPunkSunday #TheScrapSpace #ReUse #Crafts #Sussex #Shoreham #Brighton #UpCycling #Recycling #Textiles

  8. The Scrap Space, Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton BN1 3XG
    22.9.26 Volunteering Open Day
    5-7pm "This is a dedicated time for anyone interested in volunteering to hang out with us and chat to current volunteers."
    weareoverthemoon.org/thescraps

    #ScrapSpace #Volunteering #Volunteer #SolarPunkSunday #TheScrapSpace #ReUse #Crafts #Sussex #Shoreham #Brighton #UpCycling #Recycling #Textiles

  9. The Scrap Space, Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton BN1 3XG
    22.9.26 Volunteering Open Day
    5-7pm "This is a dedicated time for anyone interested in volunteering to hang out with us and chat to current volunteers."
    weareoverthemoon.org/thescraps

    #ScrapSpace #Volunteering #Volunteer #SolarPunkSunday #TheScrapSpace #ReUse #Crafts #Sussex #Shoreham #Brighton #UpCycling #Recycling #Textiles

  10. The Scrap Space, Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton BN1 3XG
    22.9.26 Volunteering Open Day
    5-7pm "This is a dedicated time for anyone interested in volunteering to hang out with us and chat to current volunteers."
    weareoverthemoon.org/thescraps

    #ScrapSpace #Volunteering #Volunteer #SolarPunkSunday #TheScrapSpace #ReUse #Crafts #Sussex #Shoreham #Brighton #UpCycling #Recycling #Textiles

  11. A SAM.I. delegation is in Taipei to kick off the #civilprotection & #resilience exchange project TER-X with Taiwanese NGO Forward Alliance. TER-X will conduct trainings with an eye on the invaluable role of #volunteering and CSOs in improving #whole-of-society resilience to natural disasters.

  12. Country pride events struggle to survive as volunteers dwindle
    By Rachel Hagan

    In the remote WA town of Carnarvon, Queernavon has been running pride events for three years. A lack of volunteers means they may not go ahead this year and organisers worry about what that will mean for the community.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-15/car

    #LGBTQIA #RegionalCommunities #Volunteering #CommunityandCulturalEvents #RachelHagan

  13. Country pride events struggle to survive as volunteers dwindle
    By Rachel Hagan

    In the remote WA town of Carnarvon, Queernavon has been running pride events for three years. A lack of volunteers means they may not go ahead this year and organisers worry about what that will mean for the community.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-15/car

    #LGBTQIA #RegionalCommunities #Volunteering #CommunityandCulturalEvents #RachelHagan

  14. Country pride events struggle to survive as volunteers dwindle
    By Rachel Hagan

    In the remote WA town of Carnarvon, Queernavon has been running pride events for three years. A lack of volunteers means they may not go ahead this year and organisers worry about what that will mean for the community.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-15/car

    #LGBTQIA #RegionalCommunities #Volunteering #CommunityandCulturalEvents #RachelHagan

  15. Country pride events struggle to survive as volunteers dwindle
    By Rachel Hagan

    In the remote WA town of Carnarvon, Queernavon has been running pride events for three years. A lack of volunteers means they may not go ahead this year and organisers worry about what that will mean for the community.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-15/car

    #LGBTQIA #RegionalCommunities #Volunteering #CommunityandCulturalEvents #RachelHagan

  16. Country pride events struggle to survive as volunteers dwindle
    By Rachel Hagan

    In the remote WA town of Carnarvon, Queernavon has been running pride events for three years. A lack of volunteers means they may not go ahead this year and organisers worry about what that will mean for the community.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-15/car

    #LGBTQIA #RegionalCommunities #Volunteering #CommunityandCulturalEvents #RachelHagan

  17. Turkish woman volunteers for 45 years to help children in state care

    After losing her 24-year-old son in a traffic accident, Sabahat Ekerci turned to volunteer work in Istanbul to…
    #EuropeSays #Turkiye #Türkiye #childreninstatecare #Turkish #VOLUNTEERING
    europesays.com/turkiye/50727/

  18. On Desktops, Smartphones and Volunteering

    Reading Time: 3 minutes

    Yet another article has been written about how smartphones are a trap we built for ourselves by VOX. The article is paywalled so I didn’t read it but it’s worth commenting on the headline.

    This weekend I was in Divonne volunteering at the Triathlon de Divonne and during this time I was surprised by a single thing. I was surprised by how many people I knew through cycling, after-work drinks and one or two from running. Divonne isn’t a place that I go to very often. I usually go on the last Saturday of the month, to ride with friends.

    One of those friends deals with the Triathlon de Divonne, so that’s why I volunteered. In so doing I found that my ties to Divonne are stronger than I expected. When I ran at the Wake Up and Run event I was surprised by how few people I knew were there, whereas with the Triathlon the opposite is true.

    It is also worth noting that by volunteering at this event I spent the entire day with people, whether it was children transitioning at the bike park from, swimming to cycling, to running, or adults placing their bikes, to cars waiting to be able to pass due to us blocking the roads for cyclist safety.

    We often blame smart phones for isolating us but recently I heard a comment about how much homework children get, and how as it increases children stop playing outside. With time that isolation increases, and increases. If you have homework groups then theoretically you undercut that isolation, but in practice it’s easier, logistically to go home.

    As we become adults, in the world of work, we are desk bound to computer based jobs and if we get up for a little chat we are immediately told off for slacking off. The irony is that if you’re a smoker that slacking off is accepted, but if you’re a non-smoker, chatting with a smoker then you’re a slacker. Remember Rachel Green in Friends for a 90s example.

    We love to blame smartphones for being a trap but we don’t consider our computer based jobs in high pressure environments that require us to be focused and unsociable.

    Before smartphones, and data plans Blackberry and some Nokia phones had data but it required a special plan. Before that you needed your laptop and either a network port and cable, or a wifi card. With smartphones you get convenience.

    For the last two days, people with their bibs and bike stickers should recover their bikes. If they didn’t have their smartphones, with the confirmation e-mail bike recovery was complicated. Those that did not have their phones had to leave their bikes, get their bib or some other form of identification before being allowed to depart.

    Smartphones are seen as an addiction centre by many, but that’s because plenty of people don’t remember why smartphones make life more convenient. Would you want to go to a triathlon with your laptop, left in a bag, in a locker?

    The article wrote about mindless scrolling on a smartphone, despite being a new parent and my comment to that is simple. Until 2007 social networks were small communities of like minded people in the middle of conversation. From 2007 onwards, with hashtags, and zynga farming games we shifted from conversations with friends to spamming with friends, with various requests.

    With Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, when we had conversations within tight knit communities, with our sharing of photos, we weren’t mindlessly scrolling. We were socialising.

    When Twitter shifted to hashtags the social aspect was lost, and when Instagram was sold to Facebook it went from community to influencers. It went from being a social investment to being a waste of time, for advertisers and influencers to spam us.

    Remember, social media, via smart phones was made ubiquitous and convenient, but with the wrong moral compass being used, apps that connected us disconnected us. Today if we use FB and Twitter, and Instagram we’re being antisocial to those we are with. Before social media was the glue that bound us together as a community. Seesmeetups, and Tweetups, and uni friend events.

    Photos of ID cards helped people who didn’t have their ID cards with them prove that they were who they said they were via photos of their ID cards, and other people could get their bibs sooner, because they had the confirmation e-mail, without printing out, saving plenty of paper. In theory it saved 1100 pieces of paper from being printed.

    In the post social media age it makes sense to volunteer to events where you’re surrounded by people, to join running groups and to join cycling groups, because, in so doing, you leave your phone in your pocket and live in the moment.

    Dark design patterns encourage us to waste time on devices. If, instead of blaming the technology, we held app designers to account, then apps would provide real value instead of wasting our time, especially reels.

    I hate that we can spend hours watching pointless reels, with no engagement, no value, and no reward. We’re not social, we’re not learning, we’re not getting value, and yet we’re wasting hours.

    Remember, pre-Facebok Instagram was a social network based on friends we knew in person. We don’t need to give up smartphones to revert to healthier habits, just the toxic apps.

    #computers #deskJobs #digital #humanContact #volunteering
  19. On Desktops, Smartphones and Volunteering

    Reading Time: 3 minutes

    Yet another article has been written about how smartphones are a trap we built for ourselves by VOX. The article is paywalled so I didn’t read it but it’s worth commenting on the headline.

    This weekend I was in Divonne volunteering at the Triathlon de Divonne and during this time I was surprised by a single thing. I was surprised by how many people I knew through cycling, after-work drinks and one or two from running. Divonne isn’t a place that I go to very often. I usually go on the last Saturday of the month, to ride with friends.

    One of those friends deals with the Triathlon de Divonne, so that’s why I volunteered. In so doing I found that my ties to Divonne are stronger than I expected. When I ran at the Wake Up and Run event I was surprised by how few people I knew were there, whereas with the Triathlon the opposite is true.

    It is also worth noting that by volunteering at this event I spent the entire day with people, whether it was children transitioning at the bike park from, swimming to cycling, to running, or adults placing their bikes, to cars waiting to be able to pass due to us blocking the roads for cyclist safety.

    We often blame smart phones for isolating us but recently I heard a comment about how much homework children get, and how as it increases children stop playing outside. With time that isolation increases, and increases. If you have homework groups then theoretically you undercut that isolation, but in practice it’s easier, logistically to go home.

    As we become adults, in the world of work, we are desk bound to computer based jobs and if we get up for a little chat we are immediately told off for slacking off. The irony is that if you’re a smoker that slacking off is accepted, but if you’re a non-smoker, chatting with a smoker then you’re a slacker. Remember Rachel Green in Friends for a 90s example.

    We love to blame smartphones for being a trap but we don’t consider our computer based jobs in high pressure environments that require us to be focused and unsociable.

    Before smartphones, and data plans Blackberry and some Nokia phones had data but it required a special plan. Before that you needed your laptop and either a network port and cable, or a wifi card. With smartphones you get convenience.

    For the last two days, people with their bibs and bike stickers should recover their bikes. If they didn’t have their smartphones, with the confirmation e-mail bike recovery was complicated. Those that did not have their phones had to leave their bikes, get their bib or some other form of identification before being allowed to depart.

    Smartphones are seen as an addiction centre by many, but that’s because plenty of people don’t remember why smartphones make life more convenient. Would you want to go to a triathlon with your laptop, left in a bag, in a locker?

    The article wrote about mindless scrolling on a smartphone, despite being a new parent and my comment to that is simple. Until 2007 social networks were small communities of like minded people in the middle of conversation. From 2007 onwards, with hashtags, and zynga farming games we shifted from conversations with friends to spamming with friends, with various requests.

    With Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, when we had conversations within tight knit communities, with our sharing of photos, we weren’t mindlessly scrolling. We were socialising.

    When Twitter shifted to hashtags the social aspect was lost, and when Instagram was sold to Facebook it went from community to influencers. It went from being a social investment to being a waste of time, for advertisers and influencers to spam us.

    Remember, social media, via smart phones was made ubiquitous and convenient, but with the wrong moral compass being used, apps that connected us disconnected us. Today if we use FB and Twitter, and Instagram we’re being antisocial to those we are with. Before social media was the glue that bound us together as a community. Seesmeetups, and Tweetups, and uni friend events.

    Photos of ID cards helped people who didn’t have their ID cards with them prove that they were who they said they were via photos of their ID cards, and other people could get their bibs sooner, because they had the confirmation e-mail, without printing out, saving plenty of paper. In theory it saved 1100 pieces of paper from being printed.

    In the post social media age it makes sense to volunteer to events where you’re surrounded by people, to join running groups and to join cycling groups, because, in so doing, you leave your phone in your pocket and live in the moment.

    Dark design patterns encourage us to waste time on devices. If, instead of blaming the technology, we held app designers to account, then apps would provide real value instead of wasting our time, especially reels.

    I hate that we can spend hours watching pointless reels, with no engagement, no value, and no reward. We’re not social, we’re not learning, we’re not getting value, and yet we’re wasting hours.

    Remember, pre-Facebok Instagram was a social network based on friends we knew in person. We don’t need to give up smartphones to revert to healthier habits, just the toxic apps.

    #computers #deskJobs #digital #humanContact #volunteering
  20. Do Supervised School Volunteers Now Need DBS Checks?

    Supervision no longer automatically keeps frequent child-facing volunteers outside regulated activity. Here is when enhanced DBS checks may apply.

    ferdiox.com/blog/2026/09/14/do

  21. Do Supervised School Volunteers Now Need DBS Checks?

    Supervision no longer automatically keeps frequent child-facing volunteers outside regulated activity. Here is when enhanced DBS checks may apply.

    ferdiox.com/blog/2026/09/14/do

  22. Do Supervised School Volunteers Now Need DBS Checks?

    Supervision no longer automatically keeps frequent child-facing volunteers outside regulated activity. Here is when enhanced DBS checks may apply.

    ferdiox.com/blog/2026/09/14/do

  23. Do Supervised School Volunteers Now Need DBS Checks?

    Supervision no longer automatically keeps frequent child-facing volunteers outside regulated activity. Here is when enhanced DBS checks may apply.

    ferdiox.com/blog/2026/09/14/do

  24. Do Supervised School Volunteers Now Need DBS Checks?

    Supervision no longer automatically keeps frequent child-facing volunteers outside regulated activity. Here is when enhanced DBS checks may apply.

    ferdiox.com/blog/2026/09/14/do

  25. #SacoME #EarthDay #Cleanup

    Come Celebrate Earth Day in Saco!

    April 24 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

    "Registration is NOW OPEN!

    Each year, the Saco Parks & Recreation Department offers an opportunity to bring the community together to clean up and prepare the local green spaces and parks for spring and summer! It is now more important than ever to focus on our green space, clean energy, eliminating waste, and becoming an eco-friendly community.

    "#ecomaine is proud to be part of this year’s celebration! Stop by our table at the #SacoCommunityCenter at the start of the day to pick up #recycling resources, meet our education team, and learn about the sustainable waste programs available to Saco residents. At the end of the cleanup, we’ll be weighing the trash collected from parks, trails, and open spaces across the city so volunteers can see the real impact their community made together.

    "Looking to get involved? Join your neighbors to volunteer in Saco and help clean up and prepare local parks for spring and summer. Duties include #TrashPickUp, #weeding, #mulching, raking, and more. This event is (light) rain or shine!


    Schedule of Events:

    When: Friday, April 24th, 2026
    Where: Our very own Saco parks, schools, trails, and open spaces!
    Time: 9:00am-1:00pm
    Please meet at the Saco Community Center at 9:00am to check-in. Everyone who registers by the T-shirt deadline will pick up their shirts.
    We will also have coffee and refreshments for everyone so that we can fuel up before we go!
    Volunteers will disperse to your locations after we take a group photo!
    Fee: FREE but must pre-register!
    Ages: Volunteers under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult.


    Earth Day Location Options:

    Please only sign up for one location.

    Options this year include:

    Diamond Riverside Park: On Irving St. overlooking the Saco River.

    Pepperell Park: Located around the Saco Dog Park and Fairfield School on Beach St./School St. - nice and quiet (and shaded!).

    Front Street Park and River Walk Trail: On Front St. near the river and boat launch and includes the new walkway.

    Cascade Falls Trail: Located on Cascade Rd. off of Route 1.

    Haley Park: Located on King St. near the Saco Community Garden.

    Saco Community Center: 75 Franklin St.

    Saco Middle School: 40 Buxton Rd.

    Memorial Park at CK Burns School: 135 Middle Street

    Jubilee Park: Covered bridge park on Water Street.

    Rendezvous Point & Outlook Cemeteries

    If your preferred location has reached capacity, please register for another site. There are plenty of opportunities to help us prepare Saco's parks for the spring and summer!"

    To sign up:
    sacome.myrec.com/info/activiti

    #SolarPunkSunday #MaineEvents #EarthDay2026 #ParkCleanups #CommunitySpaces #CemeteryCleanups #BuildingCommunity #Volunteering

  26. UN Mappers Training at the Universitat Jaume I 🇪🇸

    On 11-12 November, #UNMappers conducted an OpenStreetMap (OSM) training with ERASMUS+ students at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellon, Valencia, Spain. The topics discussed were OSM data model, mapping using iD editor and JOSM, downloading and querying data, and field mapping. 🗺📍🌐

    📸Photo credits: Michael Gould

    #UNMaps #OpenStreetMap #training #opendata #volunteering #UNVolunteering #openmapping #ERASMUS #UniversitatJaumeI #OSM #OSMtraining

  27. The slides for my talk today at #transform_D on how #Wikimedia projects can and do interact with other #volunteering communities
    sit at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15104365 .

    In German for now but if you'd be interested in an English version, please let me know. I am considering to submit a similar talk to Wikimania.

    #Ehrenamt
    #DSEE

  28. Do you live in the Rhein-Main area? 🏡

    👉 Then come to the next meet-up and let’s talk over a drink or food about #data4good !

    #correlaid #correlaidx #meetup #volunteering

  29. Great #volunteers #WorkParty today!
    We got lots done together. Orchard has no more fallen fruits for now. We got a bunch of weeding & pruning done too.

    Learn more & join us at future orchard work parties or come out for free tours sometime!
    lifecyclesproject.ca/our-proje

    I met 3 people who are also from Vietnam today too. Julie & her daughter are from South Vietnam - they live in a rental here that's only 5 minutes from our home. Phanh is from North Vietnam & works on a farm in Metchosin. She's moving out to live on the farm soon, with her husband.

    I also found out that River, the orchard coordinator, knows my good friend, Lyrica & her partner Talia too. They met at local Queer Crafternoon gatherings. Lyrica regularly attends those & River teaches some crafts at them. I'm going to attend some of them in near future as it's open to LGBTQ2S comrades & a few friends have invited me to go.

    #CommunityOrchard #Volunteering #CommunityBased #ViewRoyal #LifecyclesProject #CommunityStewardship #HelpingHands #Wsanec #Saanich #Lekwungen #VictoriaBC #YYJ #FoodSecurity #FruitsForEveryone #OrchardWork #CommunityVolunteers #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #PNW #HeritageOrchard #LandConservancy #LegacyPark #AsianMastodon

  30. Another weekend, another #EagleScout project for Troop 3 Easton. This time, we are painting and staining fences along the stairs that wind their way up the Southside hill.

    And weeding and picking up trash, which are precursors to painting. #EastonPA #Volunteering #civicduty #Scouting