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Volunteering takes up our time, energy, and sometimes, money. It can be hard work. It can find us doing and seeing new things, which can be challenging and even a little scary but there are numerous benefits to volunteering.



Around our island and indeed around the world many people and communities need help and although governments and some corporate organisations try to meet the needs of people, it is really impossible for them to do it all. That is when volunteering is useful. 



Volunteers can make a difference where someone or something needs help. If people never help each other and only care about themselves, our island would not be a very nice place to live. 



When we volunteer our time, money, or talents, we help make our environment, our schools, communities and our island, happier  places to be.



Volunteering also has tremendous benefits for children.  .

• Making new friends

• Making connections that can lead to a job or career

• Building confidence, self-esteem, responsibility and an interest in learning and helps children develop new social skills. It also provides  opportunities to apply newly learned material.

• Meeting people who could be role models

• Getting active and healthier

• Relieving stress

• Enhances development — Volunteering can benefit a child's psychological, social and intellectual development.

• Promotes a healthy lifestyle and choices — Children who volunteer are less likely to become involved in at-risk behaviours.

• Teaches social responsibility — Volunteering helps children develop empathy and learn that one person can make a difference. 

• Creates a lifelong ethic of service — Individuals who volunteer as a child or who observed their parents volunteering have a much higher probability of being a volunteer in their adult years.

• Improves the community — Volunteer activities are essential for advancing the common good, and children can be part of the change.