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How long have you been an RSGB volunteer?<\/strong> I\u2019ve been a volunteer with the RSGB for over a year now, both in the role as Youth Champion for Schools and more recently as Youth Chair.<\/p>\n Why did you choose to volunteer?<\/strong> It seemed like a natural extension of what I initially wanted to get out of starting my own school club, which is to see the number of young people in amateur radio grow.<\/p>\n What do you gain from volunteering?<\/strong> For me it is all about bringing opportunities to young people through exposure to the many different elements of amateur radio. For a lot of schools, they are simply not aware of the opportunities that exist within the hobby. This is both from a career perspective and also from the skills the hobby can bring: expanding their horizons, building confidence, developing communication skills and encouraging curiosity. Who wouldn’t want that for their students? Working alongside an excellent Outreach team\u00a0and, as a teacher, working directly with the RSGB, gives me the reach to actually make a difference to young people across the UK.<\/p>\n What would you say to people thinking about volunteering for the RSGB?<\/strong> Absolutely go for it. If you think you can make a difference, then you definitely can. There are plenty of like-minded people within the RSGB community who can help to drive things and offer support.<\/p>\n Fun fact: do you prefer operating or tinkering\/constructing? <\/strong>RSGB Board Director, Ben Lloyd, GW4BML has really given me the bug for operating by doing SOTA. I hope to activate a few more hills over the next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How long have you been an RSGB volunteer? I\u2019ve been a volunteer with the RSGB for over a year now, both in the role as Youth Champion for Schools and more recently as Youth Chair. Why did you choose to volunteer? It seemed like a natural extension of what I initially wanted to get out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volunteers-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40070,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39750\/revisions\/40070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}