Volunteer Wellington to announce volunteer award winners

Volunteer Wellington to announce employee volunteer award winners on 25 June

Volunteer Wellington will announced the winners of its 2015 Employee Volunteering Awards at a ceremony on 25 June.

The awards – inaugurated in 2013 –celebrate the best of the last 12 months’ employee volunteer programmes, community projects, partnerships, and champions. The ceremony has been timed to coincide with National Volunteer Week.

“At the ceremony, we’ll also highlight standout projects in the Nikau Foundation Corporate Challenge, an annual initiative that sees volunteers from businesses and government departments give a day each year to complete a project in their community,” says Judy Kerr, coordinator of Volunteer Wellington’s Employee Volunteer Programme.

Over the last 12 months, some 1000 employees from 35 businesses and government agencies volunteered on 100 community projects across Wellington through the Employment Volunteer Programme.

The projects were diverse. Helping primary school children read, teaching new migrants the local lingo, clearing parks of weeds, removing rubble from beaches, painting community centres, tidying up historic cemeteries, and developing websites, are some of the projects these employee volunteers have been involved with.

“The employee volunteer programme has very tangible benefits,” says Judy. “As well as community groups benefitting from the expertise and goodwill of the business volunteers, the volunteers benefit from team-building experiences, learning new skills, and the opportunity to find out more about the communities they work in.”

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