Citizenship and Volunteering
Citizenship
To qualify as a Young Citizen of the Year you will need to undertake
a good citizen activity for a local community cause. There are lots of things
you could do, such as:
• Volunteer at a St Ann’s Hospice or another local charity shop
• Contact your local Volunteer Bureau for nearby charity opportunities
• Get in touch with a charity of personal interest to you
• Contact your local council and get involved with some initiatives in
your neighbourhood. You might consider conducting a litter pick-up to tidy your
street.
• Ask your teacher for tasks that would help benefit the school. You could
mentor some of the younger students with reading or sports activities
• Consider ways to undertake tasks to benefit your local neighbourhood.
If you have any elderly neighbours, you could offer to help with their gardening
or do some shopping for them.
Volunteer at St Ann's Hospice
If you choose to volunteer your time to help St Ann's Hospice, you could do
one of the following:
• Help us out with gardening - plant bulbs in Autumn, flower beds in
Spring
• Deliver St Ann’s Hospice information leaflets in your local area
• Work in one of our St Ann's Hospice charity shops- design window displays
or help us sort through items
• Manage a stall at the St Ann's Hospice Summer Garden Party or Christmas
Fair
• Design and produce items to sell in aid of St Ann's Hospice, such as
greetings cards
• Produce artwork to decorate the Hospice
• Grow plants & sunflowers to sell in aid of the Hospice
• Support St Ann's Hospice events by face painting, serving refreshments
etc.
• Entertain patients who are here for the day with music or dance
• Help put our balloon race packs together
• Take part in a bag packing day at your local supermarket and collect
donations for the Hospice
Local Volunteer Bureaux
Alternatively, the following organisations will help you to find voluntary work
that interests and inspires you:
www.volunteerstockport.vol.org.uk or call on 0161 477 0246
www.stockport.gov.uk and search under ‘good neighbour’
Trafford Volunteer Bureau, 0161 976 2447 enquiries@trafford.cvs.uk
Salford Volunteer Bureau 0161 707 7067 volunteerbureau@salfordcvs.co.uk
www.salford.gov.uk/volunteering
