Friday 25 June 2021

Covid travel lists - June 2021

UK travel update: Malta added to green list and green watchlist extended as plans for quarantine-free travel for fully vaccinated passengers from amber list countries confirmed 24th June

ABTA response

Manchester airports group launch day of action. Statement

Easyjet calls for opening up of travel

TUI statement

Hays travel agents

Sunday 13 June 2021

UK government reports covid june 2020


Oral statement on easing of coronavirus restrictions
Speech by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in House of Commons on the easing of coronavirus restrictions 14th june 

Everyone working in care homes to be fully vaccinated under new law to protect residents
UK to donate 100 million coronavirus vaccine doses-11th June

Findings from Imperial College London and Ipsos MORI show infections have increased by 50% since the last REACT-1 study in May, with 1 in 670 people infected.
Measures including surge testing, tracing, isolation support and maximising vaccine uptake will be deployed rapidly across Greater Manchester and all Lancashire County Council areas- 8th June



The MHRA concludes positive safety profile for Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in 12- to 15-year-olds -  4th June

Milestone reached as Health and Social Care Secretary gives a speech marking almost 6 months since unprecedented vaccination programme began.

Wednesday 2 June 2021

What are the value of volunteers? Some resources for volunteering week

 
This week is volunteering week
A report by the lse found that NHS covid volunteers programme produced well being values that were around £1,800 each for volunteers
Happy to help: The welfare effects of a nationwide micro-volunteering programme

Paul Dolan Christian Krekel Ganga Shreedhar Helen Lee Claire Marshall Allison Smith
read the full report for methodology
For further information on the value of giving to volunteers and GDP see this 2015 OECD report
and Volunteers scotland which estimated
The results of the 2018 Scottish Household Survey allow us to calculate volunteering effort in Scotland as 5.5 billion to Scotland. its website also has resources on how to calculate impact

The NCVO civil society almanac has data on who volunteers - their profiles and what motivates them
The Institute for Volunteering University of East Anglia has an online library of resources on volunteering research
CAF has World giving indexes which cover charity as well as a few questions on helping others