During National Volunteers’ Week, one of the Centre’s volunteers, Ross, will become a priest of the Diocese of Portsmouth. Here Ross shares why he decided to volunteer with the Centre as part of his training to become a priest and what it was like to work with young people wanting to turn their lives around. As part of our formation […]
ESOL students from the Cardinal Hume Centre were recently chosen to work with three academics from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the School of Advanced Study on a special project.
The Centre was very grateful to have two enthusiastic volunteers from London Nautical School helping out across various services last week.
At a debate in the House of Lords this week, Lord Touhig praised the diversity of volunteers at the Cardinal Hume Centre and the support they give to the hundreds of people who come to the Centre for support each month.
Nadeisha started volunteering in our hostel at the beginning of this year, returning to the Centre 18 years after receiving help here herself.
Volunteers’ Week 2015 was a great success! We really wanted to highlight all the incredible work our volunteers do and let them know how much we appreciate them.
Over a hundred people regularly give of their time and skills to support the work of the Cardinal Hume Centre in London. Nationally, 23 million people volunteer, and 1-7 June is time to celebrate their hard work in National Volunteer Week.
Over a hundred people regularly give of their time and skills to support the work of the Cardinal Hume Centre in London. Nationally, 23 million people volunteer, and 1-7 June is time to celebrate their hard work in National Volunteer Week.
Over a hundred people regularly give of their time and skills to support the work of the Cardinal Hume Centre in London. Nationally, 23 million people volunteer, and 1-7 June is time to celebrate their hard work in National Volunteer Week.
Over a hundred people regularly give of their time and skills to support the work of the Cardinal Hume Centre in London. Nationally, 23 million people volunteer, and 1-7 June is time to celebrate their hard work in National Volunteer Week.
Our volunteers are incredibly valuable to us, therefore we want to know whether they feel valued and if their time here is mutually beneficial. For two years we have collected detailed feedback from them in the Annual Volunteer Survey, and the 2014 results are in.
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The Cardinal Hume Centre has appointed Philip Yates as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. The appointment follows the sudden death in January of the previous Chairman, Paul Goggins, MP.
The Cardinal Hume Centre scooped two of the awards at the 2014 Westminster Community Awards ceremony, winning the Partnership award for its joint work with Land Securities and Outstanding Organisation award for its English Language service.
All week we have been celebrating our wonderful volunteers as part of national Volunteers Week. The highlight of the week was welcoming all of our volunteers to a sunny BBQ. Over 100 volunteers help us provide our many services, we simply couldn’t function without them. This includes 50 one-to-one coaches, teaching IT, reading, numeracy and English language. Volunteers also help staff the […]
“I was keen to get some first-hand experience and learn something new about the great work voluntary groups do to help those in need.
I now spend a couple of hours most weeks at the Centre’s Jobs Club.”
Joanne has been volunteering in our charity shop since early 2013. She writes about how much she enjoys giving directly back to the community.
Two groups of enthusiastic school children helped shoppers at the Pimlico Sainsbury’s last week, and raised money for the Cardinal Hume Centre.
Jean Newbold has been volunteering as an English language teacher at the Centre for more than 10 years. She talks about the profound affect it has had on her life.
