Salary:  £23,500- £26,000 per annum + 7% pension (depending on experience)
Hours: 35 hours per week 
Location: Chesham, Buckinghamshire with flexibility for home working, dependent on the needs of the team.

The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) campaigns to protect and restore the country’s 6,500 miles of inland waterways by influencing and consulting with key stakeholders at a national and local level, as well as delivering a wide range of activities from festivals to waterway maintenance and regeneration.

Volunteering is fundamental to the way IWA works.

We now have an excellent opportunity for you to join our team and make a difference as a Volunteer Coordinator for IWA’s Waterway Recovery Group (WRG) . 

We are looking for an energetic, people person, with a ‘can-do attitude’ who works well in a team to help support the activities of our Waterway Recovery Group and the delivery of their Canal Camps programme as well as offering advice and help to the wider waterway restoration community through our Restoration Hub. 

Reporting to, and working alongside the Restoration Hub Coordinator, you will support our lead volunteers whilst they plan and coordinate our programme of canal restoration working holidays called Canal Camps. You will also support WRG volunteers on their volunteering journey with us – from initial enquiries to taking part in an activity to moving onto other opportunities – all whilst providing a friendly and efficient service. 

You will be highly organised, familiar with working with a range of IT platforms and more importantly be confident adapting to new ones. 

You will also be expected to ‘get your hands dirty’ and attend day volunteering events and working holidays in order to gain a greater understanding of the Association’s work.

The role will involve travelling and some out of office hour’s work. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Main aim of role: 

To continue to build on the success of WRG’s volunteer activities focusing on running well-planned, safe projects, encouraging participation by new audiences of all ages and seeking to improve volunteer retention across the year.  

Support: 

• Manage WRG’s programme of Canal Camps – including recruiting volunteers, running training events and making sure our leadership teams feel valued and supported. 
• Manage our Legacy Leadership Programme to train and develop waterway leaders of the future.
• Support the work of the WRG Board in developing WRG’s programme of events each year and attending their meetings. 
• Support the work of our Technical Support Officer to ensure there is a consistent approach to the management of Health and Safety, and its associated paperwork.
• Support the Restoration Hub Coordinator in ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of the Restoration Hub– to include helping to run the Annual Conference and any workshops
• Work with the Restoration Hub Team to develop a new range of activities to appeal to different supporter groups – developing our family camp programme and developing further youth engagement activities.

Inspire:

• Working closely with the marketing team to recruit new volunteers and encourage participation in WRG events.
• Create and produce a quarterly e-newsletter for our volunteers sharing good practice and information as well as managing our social media accounts. 
• Implement ways to incentivise and recognise our volunteers, including coordinating activities for Volunteers’ Week.

Practical

• Support WRG volunteers running Canal Camps by attending projects or helping organise training events such as our Leaders Training Day and Training Weekend.   
• Run family volunteering weekends. 

Volunteering Services Coordinator
Fixed Term until January 2022
Home Based
£26,500 per annum

This is a pivotal role in which you will have the opportunity to support the delivery of volunteering roles in our emotional and practical support services so that a wider range of people can get involved in supporting people affected by cancer.

You’ll support the growth of volunteering in these services by delivering volunteer involving opportunities and enabling their sustainability. A key component of the role will be to work collaboratively with your peers and lead volunteers to enable a positive volunteer experience and delivery of effective practical and emotional support interventions to people living with cancer.

It’s particularly important that you demonstrate sound knowledge of policies and procedures relevant to this role and experience of planning. A rounded understanding of volunteering in its widest sense is useful in addition. Most important of all though, your successful track record in supporting a range of volunteer led services working with a vulnerable client group within a health and care setting is needed to achieve our goals.

And what do we offer you in return? We commit to actively developing you and offer benefits including private medical insurance, life assurance, pension, generous leave, and interest free loans for season ticket and gym membership.

Any offers on this role are made subject to a criminal records disclosure check or equivalent.

Secondment Opportunity. This vacancy may be suitable as a secondment for internal applicants. Please discuss your application for this role with your line manager to check how this would work. You should also refer to the secondment policy for more information

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Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to change the closing date of our vacancies. The interview date will be 12th August 2021.

We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths so we seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, reflecting the diverse nature of our society.

We want to make our recruitment processes accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you to be the best you can be, please contact the Macmillan HR Team.

This fantastic opportunity will enable you to make a significant impact on the well-being of our service users.

The Trinity Community Project is a health and wellbeing charity providing support from its centre to those with mental health issues and learning disabilities. The service is open five days a week from 9am – 4.30pm. We aim to promote independence and social inclusion. The Activities Coordinator’s role is to enable and encourage people to participate in a range of social activities within the service and out in the community. The activities that we deliver offer choice and promote people’s skills, independence and self-confidence, while maintaining their dignity and safety. The Activities Coordinator is line managed by the Service Manager who reports to the Trustees of the Trinity Community Project.  Support Workers & Volunteers provide additional support.

To plan and deliver activities for the people who use the service in line with the planned timetable and service policies and procedures.

To promote the work of the Trinity Community Project and the dignity of service users ensuring a professional approach at all times.

To assist the Service Manager in reviewing and developing the services in line with the service policy and performance standards.

We are looking to recruit an experienced and dynamic Services Coordinator to work alongside the Services Manager and Communications Coordinator to deliver, develop and support our confidential telephone befriending service to the sight loss community. This is a complex administration role combined with customer facing activities.

The successful candidate will have primary responsibility to administer the delivery of the service, collect and maintain accurate data and ensure that the needs of Sightline’s Service Users and Volunteers are met. In addition, the successful candidate will network across the sight loss sector to gain new Volunteers and Service Users.

If a candidate has a visual impairment this will be seen in a positive light because of the likely empathy the candidate will have with our Service Users and Volunteers.

If this role excites you then please register your interest to receive the full Services Coordinator Job Pack. Please do NOT send any kind of written application until you have read the Job Pack.

Community Engagement Coordinator

Job title: Community Engagement Coordinator

Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week)

Contract: 12 months initially, with the potential for extension for at least another 12 months

Salary: NJC points 14 (£23,080) to 19 (£25,481)

Location: a mix of home and office working (Chorley/Preston), with significant amounts of time spent in local communities across Lancashire

Do you want to join a team who are passionate about improving mental health and wellbeing for the people of Lancashire?

We’re looking for a bold and caring person to join our Community Development Team, who has experience of working alongside communities, getting to know them and understanding their needs.

We want someone who is open, hardworking, creative and able to work on their own initiative to coordinate our community engagement work. This is a key role in ensuring we are listening to people who are representative of the Lancashire population, particularly those with lived experience of mental health conditions.

You will carry out research and work directly with people who use Lancashire Mind services, and the wider community, to make sure our services are designed with the people who will use them. You will support colleagues within Lancashire Mind to provide a range of opportunities for people who use our services to influence our work.

The ideal candidate will have experience of engaging and working alongside diverse communities, with a good understanding of how prejudice, stigma and discrimination impact on people’s mental health. But, above all, we want someone who believes in our vision of a Lancashire where everyone has the opportunity to have the best mental health and wellbeing possible.

Lancashire Mind is committed to fighting racism and other forms of oppression. We want to be a great employer for all our staff, regardless of their background or characteristics. We recognise that not everyone is the same and that different people will require different support to fulfil their potential. We want to ensure Lancashire becomes a place of greater equity and inclusion. One thing we can do to work towards that goal is to ensure that our staff team is representative of the diverse communities across Lancashire, and particularly those communities we know face mental health inequalities. We particularly encourage applications from those communities and from anyone with experience of living with a mental health condition.

Lancashire Mind offer a 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), a workplace pension scheme, sick pay scheme, paid emergency time off to care for dependents, regular supervision and a variety of learning and development opportunities. 

Deadline for applications: 12 noon on Tuesday 24th August 2021. Interviews are scheduled to take place on Thursday 2nd September 2021.

Lancashire Mind follows Safer Recruitment practices and have a commitment to safeguarding people who use our services. Therefore, this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. If invited to interview, we will ask you to provide evidence of your qualifications and right to work.

Registered Charity Number 1081427

Registered Company Number 3888655

ABOUT INQUEST

Founded in 1981, INQUEST is the only charity in England and Wales providing expertise on contentious deaths and their investigation to bereaved people, lawyers, other advice and support agencies, media, parliamentarians and the general public. Our range of cases includes custody and detention, multi-agency failings or where wider issues of state and corporate accountability are in question, such as with Hillsborough and Grenfell. You can find more information on our website, particularly in our Impact Report, and on our Campaigns, and Media Releases webpages.

ABOUT OUR GRENFELL PROJECT 

In the immediate aftermath of the fire, INQUEST mobilised its resources to support the communities on the ground, provide information and help shape processes around the investigation. Supported by the INQUEST Lawyers Group, we helped shape the Terms of Reference of the Public Inquiry and have been keeping a watching brief ever since. Through our support of bereaved families, the sharing of our expertise with community groups, and our well-established model of family engagement and influencing, we have helped to ensure that the voice of bereaved and survivors remains at a centre of all proceedings. In February 2019, we held a Family Consultation Day which led to our report, Family reflections on Grenfell: No voice left unheard, which fed into our parliamentary and advocacy work.

Building on our current project, we want to ensure that families bereaved as a result of the Grenfell Tower disaster remain supported and empowered throughout the further stages of the investigations and Public Inquiry. The overall objective is to ensure that the experiences and the voice of families remain at the centre of all the proceedings, including Module 8 of Phase 2 of the Inquiry (‘the inquest function’) expected in the summer of 2022 and the Inquiry recommendations:  the Phase 2 report is expected by early 2023; and any criminal proceedings, which may follow would take place throughout 2024. We want to use our unique expertise and model so the issues around accountability at individual and corporate levels and are adequately addressed and necessary reforms and recommendations are followed up.

ABOUT THE ROLE 

The purpose of the role is to support families most affected by the Grenfell disaster. Working closely with the Executive Director and the Senior Parliamentary Officer, and to engage those families in the policy, parliamentary and advocacy work that INQUEST is undertaking in relation this project. Finally, it is to keep a watching brief on the Public Inquiry and other legal processes, liaise with community groups, lawyers, and also the media, in order to ensure that the bereaved and survivors are at the heart of the Inquiry and investigation processes.

ABOUT THE CANDIDATE

The successful candidate will have experience of support, casework and/or advice provision, preferably in a human rights or social change environment. They will also have experience in engaging and mobilising groups and individuals in the pursuit of systemic change.

With outstanding communications skills and the ability to quickly instil trust, they will have a demonstrable awareness around, and understanding of, the issues INQUEST is seeking to address through the Grenfell Project.

They will enjoy working in a very fast paced environment, and will adhere to INQUEST values and commitment to social justice, equality and diversity as well as our commitment to tackling racism and discrimination.

Ready for something new?

We’re looking for someone who can make a difference in local communities.

We have a vacancy for a proactive, outgoing and organised person with a passion for volunteering to join the Imago team. In this role you will recruit and manage volunteers for our community transport service and other projects.

You will help develop services by increasing the number of volunteers, meeting demand and enabling growth in new areas. There will be opportunities to organise and deliver promotional and volunteer recruitment activities, and you will manage volunteer applications, interviews and induction. It’s important that volunteers have a great experience with Imago, so you will ensure they feel supported and valued throughout the process.

Applicants should have relevant professional or personal experience of volunteering or working with communities, and have an understanding of the positive impact volunteering can have on the individual.

You should be confident in using social media, developing marketing materials, speaking, delivering presentations and developing networks. Attention to detail is a key skill and you will maintain excellent records using our bespoke database.

You will be based at our Sevenoaks office and cover wider areas so your own car is essential for this role.

Be part of something amazing.

Volunteer Coordinator

Permanent

Part Time - 2 days per week

Up to £28,000 pa pro rata, depending on experience

ABOUT THE LIC

The London Irish Centre is the Irish Heart of London. Our Mission is to empower and enrich lives through Irish community and culture.

For over sixty years, we’ve been proud to provide vital frontline welfare services to multi-generational Irish diaspora in London, whilst instilling positive impact within local communities through education, entertainment and cultural awareness. Our commitment lies in meeting the wants and needs of our shared communities, now and for the future.

JOB BRIEF

Are you passionate about making a real difference to people's lives? We are looking for a talented Volunteer Coordinator to manage our team of Advice Volunteers and Information Volunteers, delivering first point of contact support and information, as well as basic advice to people with complex needs using a strengths-based approach.

This highly rewarding role requires a dynamic and energetic approach to managing volunteers to deliver high quality services and achieve positive outcomes. You will have a passion for supporting volunteers in making a difference to people's lives.

The deadline for applications is 9am, Monday 23rd August 2021.

The London Irish Centre is a London Living Wage and Equal Opportunities employer.

We actively encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, communities and industries, and are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities. We encourage BAME and disabled applicants and value the positive impact that difference has on our teams. We are committed to equality and diversity within our workforce and all opportunities provided by the LIC. Whilst our offices have some barriers to access, we are taking steps to resolve these, and in the meantime continue to encourage interest from applicants who require reasonable adjustments within the workplace.

Would you like to work for an award winning charity that helps people turn their lives around?

Are you a great team player who could take on a role, supporting and managing a team of dedicated volunteers who give their time to support the work of DHI?

DHI challenges social exclusion by working with people to achieve their potential and contribute to the richness and well-being of their community.

We are currently looking for a passionate, creative and dedicated individual to help us co-ordinate & develop DHI’s organisation-wide volunteer programme. In this role you will maintain volunteer records, strive for the highest standards of volunteer recruitment, placement, engagement, and retention whilst always promoting our values.

If you have experience of working with peers or volunteers and an appreciation of the benefits and challenges an unpaid workforce brings, we would love to hear from you!

Please complete both an application form and a skills form and return to us before the closing date of the 16th August.

DHI is an award winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and contribute to richness and wellbeing of their community. We are looking for applicants who will share our passion for our values, and our commitment to our client groups and our local communities.

As an employee of DHI you will be entitled to:

• 26 days plus statutory and bank holidays (1 additional day after each year of service, up to a maximum of 31 days)
• Employee assistance scheme programme
• Contributory pension scheme (employer’s contribution 7% to a minimum 3% contribution from employee).

Volunteer Coordinator (Prison Specialist)

Pact is a highly respected independent charity, working across England and Wales to develop and deliver a range of innovative services. We provide practical and emotional support to prisoner’s children and families, to prisoners and those who have resettled back into the community. Our work is founded on core values, the first of which is a belief in the innate dignity of every human being, and our work focusses on human relationships, family and community. We are committed to achieving high standards of quality in all that we do.

Position: Volunteer Coordinator (Prison Specialist)
Location: Home based but primarily working in Kent
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday
Salary: £23,000 per annum

Closing date for applications: 8th August, 2021
Interview date: TBC

The Volunteer Co-ordinator will recruit, train, match and support our volunteer mentors as they support service users in custody and community. The role is critical in ensuring that we provide high quality support, guidance, training and development opportunities to all volunteers.

About you:

It requires an excellent understanding of delivering volunteer programmes and an ability to oversee the activities of a team of volunteers working peripatetically across the Kent region.

Please Note: This role requires a valid driving license and own means of transportation.

What we offer:

Pact offers a range of benefits including a free advice, information and counselling service, contributory pension, corporate eye care scheme, cycle to work scheme and generous holiday entitlement. You will have the opportunity to attend training events to further develop yourself as a professional training and interventions worker. You will undergo a thorough induction process and be supported by a friendly and enthusiastic team.

How to apply:

If you feel that you meet the requirements of this exciting new role please complete an application form by clicking the `apply now` button.

Other information:

Pact is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all applications including those with a criminal conviction (appointment to post is subject to a risk assessment).

This post is subject to a 6-month probationary period, verification of identity and proven right to work in the UK, satisfactory references from previous employers covering a 3-year period, declaration of any unspent criminal convictions (and where appropriate a satisfactory risk assessment), Prison Vetting and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. Please note that being bankrupt or having County Court Judgements may affect your ability to be successfully vetted to work in a prison.

You may have experience of the following: Peer and Volunteer Organiser, Social Worker, Care Worker, Advice, Support, Advocacy, Volunteer Organiser, Volunteer Coordinator, Volunteer Engagement, Supporter Engagement, Volunteering Development Coordinator, Volunteer Manager, Volunteer Management, Volunteer Recruitment, Charity, Third Sector, Not for Profit, NFP, etc.

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We are seeking a volunteer co-ordinator/manager to join our small team to expand our flagship volunteer visiting and befriending service which covers the whole of Somerset. The successful candidate will live close to and cover Mendip and the eastern area of South Somerset and will recruit new volunteers, assess needs of potential beneficiaries who wish to access the service, complete paperwork, and make successful introductions.  Each beneficiary is matched with their own regular volunteer and both parties supported throughout.

The service reduces isolation and loneliness and offers beneficiaries the opportunity to take trips out, socialise and have help with reading, correspondence and other useful tasks.

The organisation: Somerset Sight works in partnership to deliver effective practical and emotional support for people with sight loss across the whole county. Our role is to provide practical and emotional support to enable people with sight loss to adapt, remain independent and live a full and active life. We have recently been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service in recognition of the impact we make in the local community. We worked throughout the pandemic within Government guidelines and no member of staff was furloughed.

Role/ Person:

•  You will be self- motivated and a team player, energetic, enthusiastic, focused and results driven.
• You will have excellent communication and people management skills and be a proven motivator of people
• . You will understand how to effectively work within agreed boundaries and manage volunteers to do the same.
• You will have demonstrable experience in managing people and overcoming challenging situations that arise.
• You will be able to assess needs of beneficiaries and their families, and will enjoy supporting both beneficiaries and volunteers.
• You will be IT literate, competent with Excel and database management, have experience of report writing and know how to keep accurate records.
• You will be conscientious and will possess a hard-working, positive attitude and will have a proactive approach to problem solving and ability to manage your own workload and use initiative. 
• You will be flexible and may have to work occasional weekends and evenings and will be committed to working for a not for profit organisation and all that it involves. You will be a competent driver, with a clean current driving licence, able to find obscure locations. This is a part time role initially 22.5 hours a week with potential to increase.

Competitive salary. Home working living close to Mendip/South East Somerset or office based considered.

Depaul UK are currently looking for a Youth Homelessness Coordinator to join us based in either Colchester or Chelmsford, Essex. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £24,415.74 per annum + pension and benefits.

Depaul UK works with some of the most disadvantaged young people in the UK. We specialise in working in communities where poverty and long-term unemployment have resulted in generations of social exclusion and high rates of homelessness

Over the past 30 years, we have grown as an organisation and developed and enhanced our work and the impact it has across the UK.  Depaul UK has a wide range of services for young people and adults at risk of homelessness

The Youth Homelessness Coordinator role:

The Nightstop service, where you will be based, provides emergency accommodation for 16 to 25 year olds in the homes of our Community Volunteer Hosts. Your responsibility will be to assess, support and place our guests who are referred to the service. You will also be working closely with Korban, a local organisation who will be leading on the volunteer support in Colchester. 

As a senior member of staff, you will also oversee the effective delivery of the service across Colchester and Chelmsford and ensure volunteers are well supported, trained and supervised

You will be working closely with the Prevention Manager to ensure the safe running of the Nightstop service as well as the wellbeing of all volunteers and staff.

The official title for this role is Senior Nightstop Coordinator.

What makes the Youth Homelessness Coordinator role exciting?

- A full induction and training to enhance the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ skills required’
- Training in the Depaul Endeavour model
- Continuous support and supervision

What will ideally support your success as our Youth Homelessness Coordinator:

- Great experience and understanding of working with young people or those who have experienced homelessness
- Experience of supervising or supporting volunteers or staff
- Experience of writing, implementing, and evaluating client risk assessments
- Good literacy, numeracy and IT skills
- Ability to demonstrate clear understanding of safeguarding requirements and procedures
- You can read more about the role in the attached job description

What’s it like to work at Depaul UK?

You'll be joining a friendly, flexible and values-led organisation, and will receive:

- Competitive salary
- 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- Contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Interest-free Annual Season Ticket Loan
- Four Weeks Paternity Leave

So, if this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you and you’d like to become our Youth Homelessness Coordinator then please click ‘apply’ today – don’t miss out, we’d love to hear from you!

Closing Date for applications: 12pm, Wednesday 4th August 2021
Interviews will take place on the 6th August

An enhanced DBS disclosure is a requirement for this role. Our recruitment checks, induction, and ongoing support and supervision reflect our commitment to safeguarding our clients. Depaul UK strives to be equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community

We kindly request no contact from Recruitment or Media Agencies

We are working with a fantastic community support charity, based in Lewisham to recruit a temporary Project and Volunteer Coordinator, this role will initially last until October with a potential extension.

You will be working in a small and busy charity, coordinating 3 community projects, you will also be recruiting and managing volunteers to assist with the delivery of projects.

This is a busy and exciting new position; the role will suit a proactive project coordinator, who has knowledge of the third sector and volunteer management.

Essential criteria:
Excellent relationship building and communication skills
An understanding of the charity sector including volunteer management
Good coordination and administration skills

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call Chloe on 02030 062787 or email [email protected].

Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we use our extensive sector knowledge and experience to match candidates to the most suitable roles. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically, supporting people to find their perfect role within the not-for-profit sector.

We are passionate about improving equality across the sector, you can read more about our commitment to diversity here.

If enough applications are received the charity reserve the right to end the application period sooner.

We are very excited to be recruiting a new Volunteering and Fundraising Coordinator to join Reading University Students’ Union.

We’re a student-led charity that supports and represents over 19,000 students at Reading.  From providing advice on finance and housing to running the biggest club nights in the city and everything in between, our purpose is to improve student life.

Our annual income is around £5million.  We receive some of our funding from the University and also raise funds through our retail outlets, events and advertising.  Every penny we make is reinvested back into our services for students.

We’re currently going through an exciting period of development and are looking for a passionate person who shares our values to join our brilliant team.  Ready for the new academic year, we’ll have a new strategy and look forward to welcoming new colleagues to join us on the next stage of our journey.

Working within the Student Activities team, our Volunteering and Fundraising Coordinator will focus on increasing engagement of students in all volunteering and fundraising activities.  You will support existing volunteering projects whilst developing a range of new and varied volunteering opportunities.  You’ll aid in the development of the Raising & Giving Committee (RAG) and support our Officers to achieve their aims, whilst empowering them to create positive change for the student community.

To take on this role you will be an effective relationship builder and have experience in overseeing projects which bring together diverse groups.  We'd like you to bring your ideas along with an inclusive and collaborative approach to helping us get the best outcome for our members.  In return, we provide a truly exciting and varied working environment and excellent opportunities for you to develop your career.

If you're excited to help shape the future of a charity that makes a real difference to the lives of our students, we'd love to hear from you.

How to apply:

For more information about RUSU and the role, please download the full recruitment pack from our website.

Your application should include the following:

• A completed Application Form (which can be downloaded from our website)
• A completed Equality Monitoring Form (which can be downloaded from our website)

If you have any questions or would like to discuss the role further, please contact Louise Speksnyder at our recruitment partners Atkinson HR Consulting, for a confidential conversation.

RUSU strives to be an equal opportunities employer. We champion diversity and remove barriers to inclusion, and are committed to ensuring that our workforce is an inclusive community that celebrates difference. We develop positive policies in all aspects of our work that promote equal opportunities for everyone, irrespective of their age, disability, ethnic background, gender or gender identity, home country, sexuality, race or religious beliefs.

If you think you have what it takes to be our Volunteering and Fundraising Coordinator, but don't necessarily meet every point on the person specification, please get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could help us to achieve great things for RUSU and our community.