Volunteers for Educational Support & Learning
A common question we get asked is how to make the most of your project, this is especially true for volunteers doing a short term project, so we have written
Doing some reading before you go overseas helps to give you a real sense of what the culture like in your destination country will be like, this is especially true
Lots of volunteers worry about being able to communicate with their host family if they speak little or no English, having been placed with a host family myself with VESL
Having a number of icebreakers up your sleeve can be incredibly useful! They can be used initially to warm up a class or to form a ‘break’ between sections of
Our next Student Leader post comes from Lucy Allcock who volunteered in India in 2012 and is returning with a team of six volunteers this summer, check out her advice
As we have asked our Student Leaders to do interviews and provide advice for our volunteers we also thought that we should give you some of our advice as past
This week we have a great case study from our volunteer Sophie Ramshaw a student from Hull University who has done some great fundraising in her local community, check out
All of us learn using different learning styles, so it is important as a teacher to ensure that you are incorporating these styles into your classroom practice. This way you
This is the second of our Student Leader blog posts (last week we had a post from James Hallworth), drawing on their experiences from last year and previous overseas volunteering
We will be bringing you a series of blog posts from our Student Leaders and past volunteers about their experiences of working with VESL and some handy tips for preparing
Summer is here! Okay we may be getting ahead of ourselves but a GLIMPSE of summer is here and there are two bank holidays in May (plus obviously all the
This week Kirsty Armour from Edgehill University has written a fundraising blog for us about the event she held last weekend in her home town. A massive congratulations to Kirsty
Pub quizzes or quiz nights are a great way to raise money and awareness of your project in your local community and they have a huge potential to raise a
Match funding is when a company you work for or are associated with match the funds that you’re raising for charity, companies do this as a way of encouraging people