Friday, September 15, 2006

SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Voluntary sector | Closing the gap

SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Voluntary sector | Closing the gap: "Closing the gap

After ten months volunteering, Charlotte Ashton looks back at what she has learned

Friday September 15, 2006
SocietyGuardian.co.uk

My year as a volunteer is over and since returning home from my final voluntary position - at Reading festival where I volunteered as a steward to raise money for Oxfam - I have been asking myself, would I do it again?

It has been a long ten months. Fitting in enough paid work to cover the bills has been a struggle at times and moving to a different place and starting a new job at a new charity with new people and new problems every single month has been exhausting."

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