Millennium Volunteers
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Millennium Volunteers (often abbreviated as MV) was a national UK government initiative, set up with public funding, and aimed at people aged between 16 and 24. It offered a wide range of volunteering opportunities, with support and accreditation for young people. On April 1, 2007, the Millennium Volunteers scheme was taken over by the newly established charity 'v', who have assumed interim management of the scheme, in preparation for the launch of a new National Volunteering programme to succeed Millennium Volunteers in January 2008.
Millennium Volunteers were partnered with BTCV, a national charity whose resources were used to provide an MV service in some regions.
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[edit] The nine key principles
- Sustained personal commitment
- Community benefit
- Voluntary involvement
- Inclusive
- Ownership by young people
- Variety of opportunities
- Partnership
- Quality of volunteering opportunities
- Recognition of achievements
[edit] Activities
Millennium Volunteers could become involved with a wide variety of different activities, some examples include:
- helping to run a local scout troop
- working in a hospital
- creating a community garden
- conservation work
- classroom assistant in a school for disabled children
- sports leaders
- helping on trips with younger students
- Taking part in a Cadet program, Air Training Corps, Army Cadet Force, Sea Cadets
The only requirement was that the activity is unpaid and it benefits the community in some way.
[edit] Rewards
The organisation encouraged young people to work for the good of their community by offering two rewards that can be used as proof of the hard work they have done. The first reward was given on the completion of 100 hours of community work, and an Award of Excellence upon completion of 200 hours. An award for 200+hours was also available. The 200 hour award was encouraged to be completed within a year.
