Each year UNA Exchange works with partner organisations to facilitate group volunteering opportunities for teams of young people from Wales. This includes several projects specially designed for Cardiff University students, who last year participated in community development projects in Japan and Vietnam. Amongst those visiting Yamagata on Japan’s Honshu Island […]
Invitation to join the UNA Exchange Youth Panel
Are you aged 16-25 years? Live, work or study in Wales? Passionate about volunteering at home or abroad? Interested in sharing your skills by joining a Youth Panel? […]
Volunteering: the first step to creating real change
Last month UNA Exchange young ambassador, Georgia Quinn, featured in both the Western Telegraph and the Tenby Observer, sharing the story of her volunteering journey. […]
Happy holidays from the UNA Exchange team
At UNA Exchange we have had a super busy year in 2017, working with volunteers and partner organisations from across the world. From the team in Cardiff we wish everyone happy holidays. See you in 2018 for more exciting international volunteering opportunities! […]
Supported volunteering at Amelia Trust Farm
After an enjoyable weekend of volunteering in November at Amelia Trust Farm, UNA Exchange young ambassador, Georgia Quinn, spent a week in the office helping our Supported Volunteering programme lead, Rhi Davies. In our latest blog post, Georgia shares her experience. […]
Celebrating youth social action: #iwill week 2017
The UNA Exchange team join colleagues from across Wales to celebrate social action by young people as part of #iwill week 2017. […]
UNA Exchange on BBC Radio Wales
As part of celebrations in Wales to mark the 30th anniversary of the Erasmus programme of European-funded exchanges, UNA Exchange volunteer Georgia Quinn spoke to BBC Radio Wales about her experiences abroad. […]
Celebrating 30 years of European-funded exchanges
This year the European Commission’s Erasmus programme turned 30. Since 1987 some 9 million people have had opportunity to take part in European-funded exchanges: 600,000 of them from the UK. To celebrate, members of the UNA Exchange team joined cross-sector colleagues and volunteers at the Senedd on 13th November 2017. […]
Volunteer stories: teaching in rural Uganda
In October 2017, UNA Exchange volunteer, Toby, travelled to East Africa where he taught for several weeks at the Bright Academy, a secondary school located in the village of Nakaswa in Central Uganda. […]
Six girls one sink: EVS volunteers in Cardiff
Each year UNA Exchange welcomes two new team members from overseas as part of the European Voluntary Service, which provides long-term volunteering abroad opportunities in all EU member states and many neighbouring countries. Sara Sportelli and Sandra Tiitson, from Italy and Estonia, respectively, joined UNA Exchange in September 2017 for […]