MADAM, It's such an honour to say thank you to the tens-of-thousands of people in the UK who took part in this year's CSV Make a Difference Day at the end of October. Although we are still doing the number crunching, it looks like we've beaten the 70,000 who took past last year to strengthen communities and share their skills and passions to benefit others. Activities were both large and small from litter picking parks, rivers and streets and talking about sexual health to young people in Wales through to the world's biggest magic show and packing shoe boxes filled with presents for children. Elsewhere more than 100 MPs and MSPs showed support, many inspiring volunteers in their own constituencies or volunteering at local charity shops.

If you've caught the volunteering bug and want to continue benefiting others then there are lots of other ideas for people of all ages to volunteer all year round at http://www.csv.org.uk/difference">www.csv.org.uk/difference. Hopefully we'll be welcoming you to the 18th Make a Difference Day next year!

Pete Waterman, CSV Make a Difference Day

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