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A local election candidate is calling for a volunteer centre to be established in Kilkenny city that would assist the unemployed in gaining new skills while also volunteering for the benefit of others.

A grant of €118,000 for the Galway Volunteer Centre has been welcomed by Loughrea Green party candidate Patrick Creed.

GVC has been up and running since 2006 and works in the Galway city and county. What we do is very simple. If are interested in volunteering, we can meet and provide you with a wide range of choices in what you can do, and we also help you to find a volunteering opportunity that is most suited to you.

An announcement of €60,768 funding for the Mayo Volunteer Centre has been welcomed by Claremorris Fianna Fáil candidate Gerard McHale.

Galway Volunteer Centre has reported an exceptionally busy first half of 2009, with over 1,000 members of the public registering for the first time to use the service. It has been the busiest six months for the centre since it opened in July 2006 and it is now one of the three busiest volunteer centres in Ireland.

The eighth annual NUI Galway volunteering fair will take place on Thursday September 24 in Áras na Mac Léinn from 1pm to 5pm. With over 2,000 students, staff and members of the general public expected to attend, the fair will be officially opened by Galway City Mayor Declan McDonnell. Over 60 charities and community organisations will showcase the wide range of volunteer opportunities available for students.

Teams of volunteers were busy all over the city recently as part of “Give it A Swirl Day - Ireland’s national day of volunteering.

Representatives of communities throughout the Midlands held a Christmas celebration to highlight the achievements of the hundreds of volunteers who are making a difference in their communities, on Wednesday December 9 in Bridgeways Family Resource Centre, Ballymahon.

Although 2010 is only a week old, plans are already under way to make next year the European Year of Volunteering and Fianna Fáil Galway East TD Micheal Kitt wants the public to get involved.