RSPB Volunteering Opportunities

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I have been #laidoff twice in my career. I've also quit several jobs without having any prospects for alternative income.

I've never been afraid to move on into the future.

The first time I was laid off was 1980. I had been on the job for 6 weeks, was doing very well according to everyone working with me, and then one day my boss came in and asked me to attend an unscheduled meeting in the conference room. Almost everyone in the office was there and we were all laid off by the corporate office.

That was, of course, at the height of the 1980 recession (it doesn't have a "cool" name like Great Recession or Pandemic Recession).

10 years later after I had left another job I came down with severe pneumonia. Couldn't work or look for a job for months. When I was able to get up and around, my mother suggested I do some #volunteer work.

So I called #UnitedWay and asked if they could refer me to some organization that needed help.

I spent that summer tutoring kids at a local school. It was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.

If you have lost your job and don't know what to do, but you've got a roof over your head and food to eat, try #volunteering for a while. It will help you appreciate your own self-worth and may inspire you to try something new.

Don't just sit at home and wonder what you can do with your life. You can always do something meaningful.

How one of Sydney's sickest waterways is being nursed back to health
By Gavin Coote

Scurrying about the banks of Sydney's Cooks River, an army of volunteers known as the 'mudcrabs' is working to bring one of the nation's most toxic waterways back to life.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-05/mudcrabs-remediating-sydneys-sickest-waterway-cooks-river/106528774

#Environment #Volunteering #WaterPollution #Animals #GavinCoote

How one of Sydney's sickest waterways is being nursed back to health

Scurrying about the banks of Sydney's Cooks River, an army of volunteers known as the 'mudcrabs' is working to bring one of the nation's most toxic waterways back to life.

Looking for personal recommendations for #nonprofits or #NGOs in #FrankfurtAM with English as an operational language or that accepts #volunteers that speak only English. I am learning German, but I'm not at "business-level" yet.

I'd specifically like to #volunteer for one that focuses on #tech, #HumanRights, #housing, and other social issues, a place to properly integrate with the community while doing good.

#volunteering #Frankfurt #Germany #Deutschland

Yesterday saw the penultimate "meal together" of the #threeRings development team at this week's #volunteering / #hackathon retreat, so I decided to take a #cooking shifts to have a go with the big wood-fired brick #pizzaOven in the garden!

It went... pretty damn well! #Pizza is the best.

🔗 https://danq.me/wood-fired

This year's 3Camp venue had a wood-fired pizza oven, so I signed-up for a shift of cooking for my fellow volunteers and thoroughly enjoyed making and baking a monumental amount of dough.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/04/02/wood-fired/

#article #cookery #cooking #devcamp #pizza #threeRings #volunteering

Wood-Fired

This year's 3Camp venue had a wood-fired pizza oven, so I signed-up for a shift of cooking for my fellow volunteers and thoroughly enjoyed making and baking a monumental amount of dough.

Dan Q

There was no mixing bowl in the house large enough to make enough pizza dough to feed all of the Three Rings volunteers present at this year's 3Camp, so I just had to pour out all the ingredients onto the surface and work from there.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/04/01/28647/

#note #bread #cooking #food #pizza #threeRings #volunteering