To highlight Volunteers’ Week, ICAEW Insights touches on the age gap within volunteering, expressing how chartered accountants have valued skills from the day they qualify and should use them.
“We’re finding that people are waiting to volunteer when they are later in their careers”, said Chris Owens, CFO and Company Secretary of research charity, Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM). “Certainly, we would like to increase the number of people volunteering under the age of 45, because there s a lot of people with critical skills who could really build on their experience by volunteering outside of their workplace.”
Owens is also Chair of the Advisory Group for the ICAEW volunteering community and finds it interesting that the age profile within the community, at present, is mostly people above the age of 45. He believes this is because ‘there s a recognition that as you get older, you are more experienced, you re wiser and you probably have more to
To mark Volunteers’ Week, ICAEW Insights champions its volunteering community, starting with Olivia Carling, Vice Chair of The Chartered Accountant Student Society of London.
As Vice Chair of The Chartered Accountant Student Society of London (CASSL), and an ACA Audit Trainee at Sayer Vincent, Olivia Carling was elected to take students’ ideas within the society, help coordinate them and put the ideas into action. One of her ideas was to establish a buddy system among smaller accountancy firms to help with ACA training, much like the ones readily available to students inside the Big Four.
As part of ICAEW’s coverage of Volunteers’ Week, she spoke with ICAEW Insights about the project, and how volunteering has helped her from a professional and social standpoint.
A group from Llanidloes is doing its bit to address the dramatic loss of hay meadows from farmland and encourage wildflowers and birds in the community Zero Carbon Llanidloes has received funding to create traditional hay meadows near Llanidloes with the the first three meadows will be created this summer with more planted in 2022. Farmer and Wilderness Trust director Fran Blockley said she the group is delighted to have secured the funding. Restoring hay meadows is not just great for the environment but it is also a great way to bring communities together, she said. People can get involved in everything from seed collection to harvesting.
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Ally Elouise outside her new shop on Madoc Street in Llandudno A NOT-for-profit social enterprise that helps teenagers in financial hardship with an outfit for their school prom has reopened. After four months of closure, Prom Ally has reopened its doors and is now in a new location - 23 Madoc Street, Llandudno [previously it was based at the former H Samuel on Mostyn Street]. Ally Elouise, 26, who runs Prom Ally, said: December was awful for all the businesses in Llandudno. We had Christmas window displays and hoped to do Boxing Day/January Sales etc which was all ruined. Being back open is such a relief and seeing people slowly venturing out again feels like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, finally.