{"id":22965,"date":"2025-04-24T13:01:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/?page_id=22965"},"modified":"2025-04-24T13:01:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:01:28","slug":"volunteering","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/send-local-offer\/preparing-for-adult-life-ages-14-25-years\/being-a-part-of-your-community\/volunteering\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why volunteer?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Volunteering offers numerous benefits for young people with SEND, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>skill development &#8211; gain new skills and experience in various fields<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>career exploration &#8211; try out different career ideas and find out what interests you<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>confidence building &#8211; boost your confidence and independence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>networking &#8211; meet new people and develop a network of contacts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>community engagement &#8211; give back to your community and make a positive impact<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>health and wellbeing &#8211; stay active and healthy while having fun<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devonva.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Devon Voluntary Action (DeVA)<\/a>&nbsp;is a service that helps people volunteer locally. They aim to make volunteering in Devon as easy as possible for everyone, no matter what your age or background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devonconnect.org\/activities\/volunteers\" rel=\"noopener\">Devon Connect<\/a> is a free community resource for anyone wanting to share or find information about volunteering opportunities, activities and events across Devon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about volunteering in your community visit the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/opportunities\">community self-help schemes and volunteering page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why volunteer? Volunteering offers numerous benefits for young people with SEND, including: Devon Voluntary Action (DeVA)&nbsp;is a service that helps people volunteer locally. They aim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":22963,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-22965","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 14:35:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23338,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22965\/revisions\/23338"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}