{"id":11527,"date":"2016-06-15T14:46:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artacrossthecity.com\/?p=11527"},"modified":"2017-02-18T22:25:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T22:25:18","slug":"volunteers-day-at-the-lord-mayors-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?p=11527","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers Day at the Lord Mayors Mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate <a href=\"http:\/\/volunteersweek.org\/\"><strong>National Volunteers Week 2016<\/strong><\/a> and all the hard work done by volunteers across the third sector in the area, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scvs.org.uk\/\"><strong>Swansea Council for Voluntary Service (SCVS)<\/strong><\/a> organised a fantastic event at the decadent<strong> Lord Mayors Mansion<\/strong> to give thanks and recognition to our local volunteers. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Volunteer coordinators across <strong>Swansea<\/strong> were invited to join the afternoon tea party along with some of their volunteers. The afternoon was attended by the <strong>Deputy Lord Mayor<\/strong> of Swansea, he welcomed all the guests and awarded certificates to each of the volunteers.\u00a0 Below you can see our lovely volunteer <strong>Max Hirshfeld<\/strong> receiving his certificate before we all enjoyed tea and cake.<\/p>\n<p>The event provided the opportunity for cross-organisation exchange, volunteers to meet other volunteers, and most importantly, the chance to hear lots of feedback from them about various volunteering experiences. This feedback will be used to construct a report that <strong>SCVS<\/strong> hope will be useful to volunteer managers and to our knowledge about what works.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11529 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/artacrossthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Max-Meets-D.Lord-Mayor-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"Max Meets D.Lord Mayor!\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11579 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/artacrossthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03768-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"DSC03768\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/>\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11552\" src=\"http:\/\/artacrossthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_3430-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3430\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1365\" \/>\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11582 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/artacrossthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03816-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"DSC03816\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11583 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/artacrossthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03735-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"DSC03735\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11555\" src=\"http:\/\/artacrossthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Eve-Post-SVF-Vols-Week-full-pg-June-16-FINAL-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"Eve Post SVF Vols Week full pg June 16 FINAL\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1289\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate National Volunteers Week 2016 and all the hard work done by volunteers across the third sector in the area, Swansea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11716,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527\/revisions\/11716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}