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…
Currently the agency is working on a wide range of projects, including the Inspiration and Legacy Project 
A Modern Day Father’s Day