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Volunteering: Part two - how our three days a year make a difference

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In the second part of this blog on volunteering, Tania MacDonnell and Emy Yeboah, from Defra’s User Centred Design team, share their experience of volunteering and what inspired them to take part in a volunteering day.

Volunteering: Part one - trees and canals

Bluetit sat on a person's hand

To mark international volunteering day, Defra’s user centred design (UCD) team talk about what inspired them to take part in volunteering days and how they went. This is our first instalment of a two-part blog on volunteering.

Chloe in the community: a volunteer’s ‘lockdown’ story

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Chloe volunteering

Volunteering has been a release and source of comfort for many during lockdown, both for those volunteering and for those needing help and support.

To mark this year’s Volunteers' Week, one of our user researchers, Chloe Westerman, describes her experiences of volunteering during the past couple of months.