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VSB has successfully secured funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a unique social history project. It will record and preserve the story of volunteering in Belfast over forty years – from 1967 to 2007.
As part of our 'Forty Years Celebrations', this project is an opportunity for those individuals – ordinary people – who did extra-ordinary things during those years, to tell their story, to have that story preserved as a golden nugget of Belfast’s positive social history in difficult and challenging times, and ultimately, to see that story published in 2009 when the full body of research is produced as a high quality publication.
In the shadow of the headlines and hardship that revolved around Belfast in those years, was a parallel period of admirable, selfless yet passionate, enthusiastic and enduring, ethos of voluntary work. And at the heart and core of it all was ‘the people’.
It was these people who in small and big ways, made a difference, engineered change, had an impact on their locality, their communities, and ultimately their city.
Over the coming months a major research exercise will take place. VSB has appointed Julie McCaughan as its researcher, and together we’ll be casting the net over the city to trawl for stories and experiences about volunteering in Belfast over those years. In particular we’re searching for individuals whose stories remain untold, undiscovered and unrecorded.
We want your help to identify these people. We want you to come forward if you have a story to tell – or even to tell a story of how someone else’s voluntary work had a positive impact on you personally.
National Volunteers’ Week 1-7 June annually highlights and celebrates the considerable work and contribution that volunteers make to the community.
This year, VSB wants to hear your stories of volunteering. Next year – during Volunteer’s Week 2009, the ‘Volunteer Voices’ publication and oral history archive will be launched. Your story could be in it!
Anybody with a story that fits the bill, or who wants more information on the project, should contact Julie McCaughan on 
028 796 59626 or issue.island@btinternet.comor Bill Osborne or Jacqui Hale at VSB on 028 9020 0850.
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