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The Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade, formed in 1884, is the only one of its kind remaining. [1] Nowadays the Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade effectively functions as a retained fire station, except that its members provide their services unpaid.
Peterborough also has a separate 'volunteer fire brigade' (Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade) whose training, equipment and mobilisation falls under Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service. It is crewed by volunteers, in exactly the same way as the On-Call firefighters do, but they do not get paid.
Volunteer Police Cadets (VPC) is a nationally recognised uniformed police youth organisation which operates in most parts of the United Kingdom. It is one of several cadet youth organisations including the Army Cadet Force , Sea Cadets , Royal Marine Cadets , Air Training Corps and Fire Cadets.
People should be allowed more flexibility at work so they can find time to volunteer for good causes, the UK's chief scout has said. Under the proposal workers would have the right to 35 hours of ...
Previously, NHS Peterborough (the public-facing name of Peterborough Primary Care Trust) guided primary care services in the city, directly provided adult social care and services in the community such as health visiting and physiotherapy and also funded hospital care and other specialist treatments. Prior to the formation of the PCT, the North ...
Volunteering Matters is a UK charity focused on "the advancement of citizenship and community development for the public benefit through the promotion of volunteering". [1] It was founded in 1962 as Community Service Volunteers (CSV) by Mora and Alec Dickson . [ 2 ]
The Cinnamon Trust is a UK charity providing support for elderly and terminally ill people with pets. The organization relies on volunteers to walk dogs, transport pets, and foster pets whose owners have difficulty caring for them. [2] It also administers pet sanctuaries. [3] It was founded by Averil Jarvis in 1985, and named after her corgi ...
Volunteers fit new windows at the Sumac Centre in Nottingham, England, UK. Community volunteering, in the US called "community service", refers globally to those who work to improve their local community. This activity commonly occurs through not for profit organizations, local governments and churches; but also encompasses ad-hoc or informal ...