Ghana, Ghana, Ghana!

“Three months in Ghana? Wow, that’s a long time,” is the phrase I’ve been hearing a lot recently. Sure, three months in West Africa isn’t the typical summer vacation but I know from experience that the time will zip by in a flurry of volunteers, projects, blog posts and Azonto moves. This summer I’m acting […]

The Musings of an African Volunteering in Africa

The Musings of an African Volunteering in Africa. An eloquent insight into this issue.

Are volunteers really needed for the Champions League final?

Before reading this post, here are a few stats about UEFA, the UEFA Champions League and myself. The estimated gross commercial revenue of the 2012-13 UEFA Champions League and UEFA Super Cup is €1.34bn, from UEFA.com. The last time the UEFA Champions League final was held at Wembley the cheapest ticket available, including the booking fee, was […]

My day as a City Year London Red Jacket

“Yes!” was the instant response when asked if I would like to spend a morning at Sebright Primary School in Hackney shadowing a team of City Year London volunteers. Having heard so much about the fantastic work the “Red Jackets” do it would be great to see them in action. City Year London class themselves […]

A rant about overseas volunteering

For those of you who know me you might be a bit surprised to see the title of this blog. Through my work with KickStart Ghana and other roles I am normally telling everyone how fantastic volunteering is and why they should get involved. I also espouse the benefits of overseas volunteering and tell people […]

Hurricane Sandy and the contribution of volunteers

The impact and devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy has, quite rightly, been at the forefront of the news over the past few days. However, whenever such a disaster occurs it always amazes me how quickly people come to the fore, often risking their own safety, to help others in their community. We saw this after the riots […]

Y The Fright Not?!? The Youth Funding Network

I discovered The Funding Network at an event celebrating Nelson Mandela Day. They are an organisation that enables individuals to join together to fund social change projects. It turned out that they also have an off-shoot, The Youth Funding Network. This sounded like something that I might want to be a part of and decided […]

KickStart Ghana Party 2012

On Saturday 13th October we hosted our annual party celebrating the successes of KickStart Ghana, giving a big thanks to those that have volunteered with us and explaining why people might want to get involved with our work in the future. Over the past four years we have many successes, here are few we discussed at […]

Response to voluntourism article

Further to a recent article in The Beaver (the London School of Economics student newspaper), week of 9th October, page 23, looking at the pros and cons of voluntourism I sent the editors the following letter. Re: Voluntourism in Senegal It was great to read about Felicity’s recent volunteering experiences in Senegal and the benefits she felt […]

New to volunteering? Five ways to get the most out of it

If you’re new to volunteering you might be thinking about how to get the most out of it. Check out this blog entry on vinspired.com for some handy hints. This post was originally written by me for the London School of Economics, who have full copyright. See the original post.

Thank you Games Makers

To celebrate to outpouring of thanks for Games Makers I created this Storify to sum up some of the feelings that the British public expressed.

Hello world!

Hi! Welcome to my blog where I’m going to be writing about travelling, volunteering and football. I work as a Volunteer Coordinator at a London university and I also help run a small charity in Ghana called KickStart Ghana, which is a lot of fun. Outside of work I have a season ticket at Tottenham […]