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“Ireland’s greatest indigenous renewable energy source, worth €3 billion per year, is neither wind, wave, solar, nor biomass — it is volunteering”.

On this Saturday (August 6) Console and 1life are holding a car push to raise funds and awareness of suicide.

There will be a Pink fundraising day in Westpoint Shopping Centre, Westport, tomorrow (Saturday) in order to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society and Irish Hospice Foundation.

The west of Ireland’s children’s cancer charity CD’s Helping Hands has been rebranded and will be known as Hand in Hand.

Galway’s twitterati will gather in the House Hotel today (Thursday) for the annual Twestival, part of a global social media fundraising initiative.

To commemorate the European Year of the Volunteer 2011, the Westport Family and Community Resource Centre has organised a full day event in The Castlecourt Hotel, Westport, on Friday March 11.

Athlone Midland Samaritans give emotional support to those experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide. They are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at 1850 609090.

European Year of Volunteering 2011 was officially launched last week. Over 300 individual volunteers and non profit organisations from all over Ireland came together for the colourful ceremony, sponsored by Intel to celebrate the commitment of up to one million active volunteers in Ireland at RHK, Dublin.

Do you have skills that you feel you are not using to their full potential? Do you want to gain valuable experience to add to your CV? Do you want to enrich your social circle by meeting new people, and to have a busier social calendar? Do you have a little time to spare each week and want to help change your community for the better?

The Irish Heart Foundation is urging everyone to get the New Year off to a good start by volunteering with heart to mark the European Year of Volunteering 2011. The national charity fighting heart disease and stroke depends hugely on the generosity of volunteers all over Ireland who give up their time to carry out church gate collections throughout the year, sell happy hearts in May or organise their own fundraising events.