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According to a public survey conducted by the leadership development group Junior Chamber, ‘signing up with volunteer.ie’ is the second most helpful act within a community, topped only by ‘planting flowers in a public area.’
‘Signing up with volunteer.ie’ and ‘running a charity event’ both recived 16 per cent of the votes for best thing you can do to help a community. Of course, signing up with Volunteer Centres Ireland is only part of the task, one must also be prepared to better the community with a project!
One fantastic opportunity for getting involved with your local Volunteer Centre is to participate in the upcoming National Day of Volunteering on October 1st, 2010. One could easily combine the survey’s first and second place helpful acts into one great community building project by organising a flower planting event and registering it on www.volunteer.ie.
Interestingly, the choice to ‘become active in your local policital party’ did not recieve a single vote during the survey. ‘I was surprised to see that not one person would consider joining a political party,’ said JCI’s Mark Kelly.