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When you return from your volunteering experience abroad, one thing that you will most likely feel is a real urge to carry on the work you were doing and utilise the skills that you learned when you were away. Taking up a volunteer duty or post in the UK is the perfect way to consolidate and share the skills you acquired volunteering abroad, whilst seeing how they translate to your domestic environment.

The opportunities available to returning volunteers vary greatly, from giving general help in the field of conservation and fundraising to fulfilling more specific roles, such as volunteering in the London Aquarium or London Zoo. Whatever you do, you will find post-volunteering work gives you a worthwhile opportunity that will relate to the experience you gained when you were away, whether that was in childcare, wildlife conservation, marine conservation or teaching.

I liked the fact that by volunteering in the UK when I returned, my trip abroad was not an isolated experience. I have contributed to both the international and domestic effort to give aid and further understanding and now feel very much part of an international volunteering network. I definitely plan to go abroad again but I also want to do my part when I come home.

Guy Henderson 2007 Peru Volunteer

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For volunteering opportunities and jobs abroad and at home please visit our Careers Abroad website: http://www.careersabroad.co.uk/

When I returned from my experience with GVI, I had so much enthusiasm and so many new skills I wanted to share. Volunteering in the UK was the perfect way to do this and to learn even more new skills, not to mention the amount of like-minded people I met!

Cressida Strachan, 2007 Thailand Volunteer