Volunteering Gifts

"Remember, we can only afford to do all this pro bono because of how much anti bono pays."

'Volunteer?! I thought you said come over and bring the beer!'

Handle With Care

'We can offer Volunteers a range of experiences including exhaustion, emotional overload, lack of support and stark terror.'

'DO you remember when volunteering was just about trying to help people?'

'Well I could help with 'A bit of filing and general help around the office' or you MIGHT like to benefit from my 25 years experience in software development and capital infrastructure investment experience.'

'Somebody should do something!'

No Soliciting. Especially if it's for a good cause.

We can offer volunteers a range of experiences including exhaustion,emotional overload,lack of support and stark terror.

'I'm sorry, this is the line for people who volunteered to help their community. You're looking for the eternal damnation department.'

Volunteers.

Self-sacrifice to aid others

"'Have it all, Be an executive, community volunteer, a devoted wife and mother,' Good article, you should read this,"

"Apart from helping the community, making new friends, enjoying your experiences, supporting people in need, developing new skills, building a better community and having fun I can't see the point in volunteering!"

'Voluntary work,,, I wouldn't do it if you paid me'

Big Society in hospitals

'So, for the next three months while your brain is healing, one of our neurology volunteers, Karl, will be helping you think.'

'While they're still enthusiastic do you think we could get them to take on climate change and the war on drugs as well?'

'Whether we find my contact lens or not, I want to thank you all anyway, for becoming involved.'

'Thanks to these new rollers, you should donate a pint of blood in 14 seconds,'

"Worst case of 'compassion fatigue' I've seen."

Every Volunteer is Importan...

'Put a tick under 'very toxic'.' (New Orleans Toxic Clean-Up Team).

'OK, who wants to be a hero?'

Santa Claus donates blood.

"I appreciate you want to keep an eye on me, but is that really necessary?"

'We need immigrants to do volunteer work like removing graffiti.'

No matter your skills, there's something you can volunteer to do.

Hungry / A bit peckish.

'So then I thought, what's the idea job for a gentleman with my years of experience, wisdom and a desire to help others.'

'The deficit is at an all-time high, and you want to do VOLUNTEER work?'

'We want communities to 'own' the big societies...we want you to feel it belongs to you...'

"But dear, I have to attend all the school meetings. Otherwise I get volunteered for committees."

'They're extinct now but when I was young you'd find these everywhere...let's go to the next gallery they've got a 'bobby on the bear' and a 'postman' there.'

Ignore the problem $5