Category: Volunteers
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Celebrating National Volunteers week
We are celebrating National Volunteer’s Week by sharing Maureen’s volunteering journey with the Oswin Project…. With not much previous experience of volunteering I dropped into the Oswin project almost by accident- a visit to Cafe16 at Newcastle Cathedral, reading about the Oswin project and meeting Emma…and here I am a year later.I started volunteering at…
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Oswin Project wins silver at the Dalemain World Marmalade Awards.
The Oswin Project, who run a training bakery and café in HMP Northumberland, struck silver for their Marmalade at the Dalemain International Marmalade awards this weekend, which judges labelled as ‘a good looking jar with a great set & texture’. They achieved Silver for their Seville marmalade in the Prisons category, a new award for…
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The Oswin Volunteers: Meet Val Windle
The Oswin Project is immensely grateful to its growing team of volunteers. Their assistance in the office, their mentoring and their general support of Oswinners is invaluable. Earlier this week we had the opportunity to catch up with one of our most valued volunteers: Val Windle: ‘I have been involved with Oswin for about three…
