NEW PARTNERSIP TO SUPPORT EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERING Essex Volunteer Centres are now working in partnership with Essex County Council to support their new Essex Volunteers: the ECC Employee Volunteering programme - a total of 15 hours volunteering leave per year. We hope that many employees will see this as an opportunity to explore the world of volunteering. ECC are allowing all eligible employees to take two days or 15 hours of paid leave to engage in volunteering. This may enable them to leave work an hour earlier in order to go and support a voluntary organisation, or perhaps add a couple of hours to their lunch hour in order to undertake a task, or to devote a day to a fundraising event. Taking part in the community can lead to a better understanding of your abilities, some you never even knew you had! We are all looking forward to developing our role in this new initiative. TIME BANK partnership with ENFORM Time Bank are working in partnership with Colchester Environmental Centre enform on several “Give or Take” Recycling events, exchanging goods free of charge. So you bring along a few items (not electrical please) and you can find things you want to take home. There will be a Time Bank Information Stand at all the Give or Take Events to enable you to find out how you can benefit by exchanging time and you will be able to talk to active time bankers and find out what they put in and what they get out. Time Bank will also be providing a Coffee Shop The previous Give and Take Events last year at Wivenhoe and Mersea were For further information contact ENFORM 01206 367776 or go to www.giveortake.org
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