Can you guess how much of what we do is run by Volunteers?

Today begins National Volunteer Week 2020. This is a perfect time to call out our awesome volunteers!

For the 2019 Annual General Meeting, we worked out that we work with around 5000 young people a year. Between 40 and 50 young people were spending at least an hour a week with us, some young people were spending ten hours a week with us (the average was about four hours a week). Lockdown notwithstanding, these numbers have grown over the last year.

The most important number we worked out, however, was that it takes about 150 ‘people hours’ a week to run Llandudno Youth for Christ, and two thirds of that is done by volunteers.

Two thirds of what we do is entirely voluntary!

100 hours a week is done by volunteers!

That means Youth for Christ in Llandudno simply would not exist without our incredible team of committed, passionate, compassionate, and tireless volunteers.

Did you know that we have over fifty volunteers at Llandudno Youth for Christ? Everything from our Saturday Café, our frontline youth work projects, one-to-ones, schools work, administration, management and governance – is fuelled and carried by our amazing volunteers.

I know I’m biased, but I believe our volunteers are simply the best in the world.

So this blog today, from my heart, is simply a huge shout out to our incredible team of volunteers.

Thank you. Every one of you. You know who you are. We know who you are. And young people are meeting Jesus because of you.

Happy Volunteers’ Week!

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