{"id":17998,"date":"2018-02-08T16:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=17998"},"modified":"2018-02-08T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:03:16","slug":"should-young-people-be-getting-volunteering-advice-rather-than-careers-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2018\/02\/should-young-people-be-getting-volunteering-advice-rather-than-careers-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Should young people be getting volunteering advice rather than careers advice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"moz-text-html\" lang=\"x-unicode\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/feb\/07\/robots-jobs-salaried-work-society-unpaid-george-monbiot\">A challenging article here from George Monbiot<\/a> about the power and benefit of volunteering, especially for younger people emerging into the world of work. In a changing world of different types of work and careers, the gig economy, zero hour contracts, robotics, artificial intelligence and so much more, he has <em>\u201can outrageous proposal: replace careers advice with volunteering advice\u201d<\/em>. He goes onto say <em>\u201cwhile there is little chance of finding jobs that match students\u2019 hopes and personalities and engage their capabilities, there is every chance of connecting them with good opportunities to volunteer\u201d<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/feb\/07\/robots-jobs-salaried-work-society-unpaid-george-monbiot\">Have a read of his article<\/a> to see what you think, but at <strong>VANEL<\/strong> we\u2019re continually focusing on the value of volunteering and the ways it can be made a better experience and more valuable for everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The article focuses a lot on younger people &#8211; as does our <strong>IGNITE youth leadership programme<\/strong>. We know first hand how these volunteering experiences change lives for younger people. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We\u2019ve been training individuals through the <strong>Lincolnshire Volunteer Card<\/strong> programme, we\u2019ve got experienced retired professionals re-applying their skills through our <strong>Blue Lights Programme<\/strong> and we\u2019re working with lots of organisations to help them connect people into their volunteering opportunities through our <strong>Volunteer Development Service<\/strong>. Our <strong>Supporting Volunteers Award<\/strong> is another way we are ensuring the quality of volunteering can be the best possible for everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Every year VANEL engages with hundreds of volunteers and hosting organisations. If you need a conversation about volunteering &#8211; either as an individual or as a group &#8211; then get in touch. VANEL doesn\u2019t need to be convinced of the value of volunteering, we\u2019re sold on the idea already!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Contact Liz (<a href=\"mailto:liz@vanel.org.uk\">liz@vanel.org.uk<\/a>) or Jacky (<a href=\"mailto:jacky@vanel.org.uk\">jacky@vanel.org.uk<\/a>) or phone 01472 231123 to talk about volunteering, or contact the IGNITE team via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ignitegy.org.uk\">www.ignitegy.org.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-17998\" data-postid=\"17998\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-17998 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANEL champions volunteering in all its forms and we&#8217;ve got a lot of programmes, projects and initiatives supporting volunteering.  So interesting to read an article this week challenging the status quo on careers advice and suggesting that volunteering advice might be more useful. Read on to find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[11,152],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-4Gi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17998"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18001,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17998\/revisions\/18001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}