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Volunteering

The Big Society is a society in which individual citizens feel big: big in terms of being supported and enabled; having real and regular influence; being capable of creating change in their neighbourhood.

Volunteering is simple. It's about giving your time to do something useful, without getting paid (apart from expenses).

Last updated - 31st January 2011


A leading figure in the development of Big Society is Lord Nat Wei. Lord Wei is an unpaid government adviser working within the Cabinet Office. He has produced a Big Society blog – see link to Blog. http://www.thebigsociety.net/ for some of Lord Wei’s views on The Neighbourhood Group, Citizen-Centred Services, Community Benefit and the “Reef”.


The Civil Service main website has dedicated a webpage to the Civil Service in the English Regions (CSER) Big Society. For more information click here.

Volunteering as any activity that involves spending time, unpaid, doing something that aims to benefit the environment or someone (individuals or groups) other than, or in addition to, close relatives. Central to this definition is the fact that volunteering must be a choice freely made by each individual. This can include formal activity undertaken through public, private and voluntary organisations as well as informal community participation. For more information about volunteering visit Do-It - volunteering made easy website.


email iconFor more information about The Big Society and Volunteering email the CSSE team.

 

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CSSC Sports and Leisure


CSSC is a Cabinet Office sponsored, not for profit, staff welfare body that offers events, activities and services to all civil servants to help improve their health, well-being, morale and effectiveness.