Bulletin 15 January 2010

Recruiting Now: v20 Season 5

Vinspired are seeking Enthusiastic, Motivated and committed young people!! – No Experience Necessary.

Since Vinspired launched in May 2006 v has achieved great things – making a massive and lasting difference to the world of youth volunteering. Their v20 Youth Advisory Board members can take them even further. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to make a difference, and build the kind of experience you won’t find anywhere else. As part of v20, young people can be at the heart of the organisation, making sure they remain relevant and responsive to young people’s needs. Last year’s v20 hosted our National Conference, rubbed shoulders with the stars at the vinspired National Awards and had loads of fun during residential weekends.

v20 influence the work of v and ensure that it remains focused on young people.  v20 advise v and help v to meet its goals to:

•    Increase the numbers of young people volunteering
•    Improving volunteering opportunities for young people
•    Increase the diversity of young volunteers.
•    Act as a youth volunteering ambassador

Volunteering with v20 brings huge opportunities for both personal and organisational development.  It requires time, dedication, energy, creativity and a good sense of humour!  Previous seasons have worked with all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds so flexibility and tolerance is much in demand.  v20 bring all of these qualities and more to v.

In return for volunteering with v they’ll make every effort to harness young people’s talent for the benefit of youth volunteering.  Vinspired do everything they can to make the v20 experience both challenging and fun.  Through volunteering to be part of v20 young people can make a genuine difference, gain lifelong friends, not to mention make history.

The Application form and Guidance Notes are available to be downloaded from their website

In order to be considered for a position on the v20 Youth Advisory Board, applicants must be:

•    Aged 16 – 24 yrs (when you apply)
•    Resident in England

To make the most of the opportunity, they should be willing to

•    Volunteer for 1 year (April 2010-April 2011): this will be split up with 8 weekend residentials, plus minimum of 10 hours per month extra (either online or face to face).
•    Able to represent their own views, not those of an organisation, group or other project.
•    Willing to travel to locations across England (with v organising and paying for travel)

Closing date for applications: 5pm on Wednesday 17th February

If you are aware of any young people who may be interested in joining the v20 Youth Advisory Board, please forward link to the application form which is downloadable from our website. If you have any questions about the form, contact Gary Brunskill

Completed forms must be posted / emailed to WJP Floyd Ltd (the nice people sorting out the recruitment): At one of these addresses:

Postal address:

WJP Floyd Ltd
1 Gunpowder Square,
Fleet Street,
London, EC4A 3EP

Email address: v@wjpfloyd.co.uk

SALTO’s European Training Calendar

A new training offer has been published in SALTO’s European Training Calendar.
Date: 2010-01-12
Title: International Leader Training Seminar (ILTS)
From 2010-04-28 to 2010-05-03 in Denmark
Activity type: Training course
Target groups: Project managers, Trainers, Young people, Youth leaders, Youth Policy Makers, Youth workers
For participants from: ALL YOUTH IN ACTION PROGRAMME COUNTRIES, NEIGHBOURING PARTNER COUNTRIES, ALL OTHERS
Title: TOSHYLO , training opportunity for sending and hosting youngsters with less opportunities
From 2010-02-22 to 2010-02-27 in Belgium – FL
Activity type: Training course
Target groups: Youth leaders, Youth Policy Makers, Youth workers
For participants from: ALL YOUTH IN ACTION PROGRAMME COUNTRIES
For detailed information, please have a look at website
Please make active use of all our other online resources and services available via MySALTO