• Swindon & Wiltshire Community champions
• Thursday August 1 2024
• Author Name: Peter Davison

Bristol Junior Chamber leads charge for summer volunteering

A drive to support charities across the wider Bristol region culminated in hundreds of hours of volunteer work by the Bristol Junior Chamber this summer.

The BJC Big Help Out, introduced this year by the Chamber’s President Emma Carter, helped link up the organisation’s membership of young professionals with a range of local and national good causes – including environmental, physical and mental wellbeing, emergency services and cancer charities.

In total the Chamber had almost 40 people taking part in the drive, which ran throughout June, supporting a series charities in their day-to-day work as well as at a number of exciting public events, including:

• Avon Needs Trees
• Cancer Research UK
• Empire Fighting Chance
• FareShare
• Great Western Air Ambulance Charity
• Gympanzees
• InHope
• Penny Brohn

Emma Carter, president of the Bristol Junior Chamber said: “Supporting our local community is at the very heart of what the Bristol Junior Chamber was created to do and it is important to us that our incredible charity sector gets the support it deserves.

“I am delighted that we have had such positive engagement from our many volunteers in working with these fantastic causes and look forward to working with them further in the future.”

Danielle Argent, Bristol Junior Chamber chair of charity, added: “The Big Help Out might have taken place in June but our goal has always been to help inspire our members to create a longer-term bond with these wonderful organisations that do so much in and around Bristol.

“It is great to hear from many of our volunteers that they intend on offering more time to these charities in the coming weeks and months.”