Planning and Organising for National Transplant Week
There are ideas for planning and organising events on www.thetransplanttrust.org.uk with a special fundraising pack available to download and advice about obtaining sponsorship, creating publicity and budgeting for the event.
A total of 2,382 people received organ transplants from April 2009 to February 2010 – with 2,497 cornea transplants.
One donor can save the life of several people, or restore the sight of two others – but it’s not only organs that have to be donated, as there is also a shortage of bone marrow, tissues, cord blood and platelets. Continue reading ….
Armed Forces Day was set up to honour the outstanding contribution made by the men and women who currently serve in the Armed Forces, as well as the veterans who did so in the past.
It also offers an opportunity for civilians to meet with local members of the military forces and learn more about their work.
The First Armed Forces Day
The Armed Forces Day event was inaugurated in 2009, and marked Continue reading ….
Now in its fifth year, the campaign is run by WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme): a not-for-profit company supported by funding from DEFRA and the DTI, in partnership with the administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The week is supported by local authorities, schools and businesses, when hundreds of events take place across the UK highlighting the importance of recycling, as well as informing and raising awareness of the benefits to the community.
Most people probably wouldn’t wish the British climate on their worst enemies but, if we are to believe an old weather rhyme, there’s one person who should receive his fair share of blame for our unpredictable weather: St Swithin.
St Swithin’s Day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain. St Swithin’s Day if thou be fair For forty days ‘twill rain nae mair. Continue reading ….
Now in its 26th year, Volunteers’ Week was in the first instance administered on a local level.
In order to raise the profile of the Week, the National Centre for Volunteering took over the running until 2004 when a new integrated national agency called Volunteering England was formed – together with Volunteer Development England and the Consortium on Opportunities for Volunteering.
Currently the agency is working on a wide range of projects, including the Inspiration and Legacy Project Continue reading ….
For centuries, countries all over the world have venerated and idealised mothers – and the tradition of Mothering Sunday has always been celebrated in style. Fathers on the other hand didn’t get much of a look in at all!
When the idea of instituting a day to commemorate fathers was first put forward in the USA in 1911, it was met with a certain amount of laughter and derision on the part of the media and public. Why this should have been so is not clear - presumably fathers were deemed far too macho to need any public manifestation of affection…
The First Armed Forces Day
Currently the agency is working on a wide range of projects, including the Inspiration and Legacy Project 
A Modern Day Father’s Day 
