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Business in the Community Ireland revealed this week that top companies contributed more than €198,000 and 687 volunteer hours to Mayo charities and community groups in 2015. They revealed that 19 companies contributed more than €198,000 to support community groups and organisations in Mayo in addressing key social issues and good causes in 2015.

Athlone Credit Union would like to invite you to an open evening in the Radisson Blu Hotel Athlone on Monday, July 25, at 8pm to learn a little more about what a volunteer does within a credit union and how you can help map its future plans in the community.

A local volunteer centre has reported a 25 per cent increase in the number of people contacting its service for the first time last year seeking volunteering work. More than half of these had never volunteered before.

One in five people would become volunteers if they knew how to find opportunities to do so.

Mayo Volunteer Centre has announced that more than 430 volunteers signed up with the Volunteer Centre in 2012, an increase of 13 per cent on 2011 levels and a record high for the organisation.

Mayo Volunteer Centre is calling for volunteers to get involved in Ireland’s first National Volunteering Week from May 14 to May 20.

European Year of Volunteering 2011 was officially launched last week. Over 300 individual volunteers and non profit organisations from all over Ireland came together for the colourful ceremony, sponsored by Intel to celebrate the commitment of up to one million active volunteers in Ireland at RHK, Dublin.

The Irish Heart Foundation is urging everyone to get the New Year off to a good start by volunteering with heart to mark the European Year of Volunteering 2011. The national charity fighting heart disease and stroke depends hugely on the generosity of volunteers all over Ireland who give up their time to carry out church gate collections throughout the year, sell happy hearts in May or organise their own fundraising events.