http://www.saferlondonfoundation.org/
A while back I mentioned the Safer London Foundation (SLF) as being somewhere that I have volunteered in the past, and if it weren’t the pesky Tube Strike on Tuesday I would have been running a workshop on CV Writing for the mentors of the Aspire Project, which is an initiative to help ex criminal offenders get back into employment or get them started on training courses.
The role of the mentor is to provide encouragement, support, and guidance to people from all walks of life, and the SLF work with any number of initiatives on all sorts of different types of projects (I was last year mentoring a Police officer – and he didn’t even try and arrest me!! Oh – how I have become respectable in my old age… What – turning 30? Yes. It did hurt. I spent the day watching Season 4 of The Shield, as my legs wouldn’t work.)
The simple fact is, they are always looking for people to volunteer in many different ways, and it is incredibly rewarding to do so – I have personally learned a lot about myself, and from the brief glimpse I got of how Jitinder (my Police chappy) worked it made me respect not only the hassle the Police force go through, but also made me massively grateful for what I do in my job.
The SLF partner with companies like KPMG and the Met Police so there are also potential networking opportunities, but really if you live in London and want to contribute to making it a safer place for us all to live, and you can spare some time (it really doesn’t have to be more than a couple of hours a month in some cases) then follow the link below and get in touch with Julie, Clodagh, or Paul.
www.saferlondonfoundation.org/index.php?p=vacancies
Charidy, mate?
Not ‘alf!!!!
(For those of you confused, this is a reference to Smashey and Nicey from Harry Enfield’s Television Programme. Sigh.)
