00:00The amount of activity, the amount of good that is done by volunteers in Cardiff alone
00:06is almost incalculable. Like, we can't really comprehend the scale of it. And I think this
00:14sort of event also helps us to place ourselves in that context, to see and meet other volunteers
00:20and see, oh my gosh, like, this many volunteers are doing fantastic work in the city in just one
00:27year. There are hundreds of different charities and charitable organisations all around Cardiff.
00:32It can be hard for people to start charities, hard to maintain funding and membership, but one team
00:37are making it easier for people to get set up. Cardiff's Third Sector Council, otherwise known
00:41as C3SC, say they do what they can to help charities all across the city. Yep, so Cardiff Third Sector
00:48Council, also known as C3SC, is the local infrastructure organisation for the charity
00:53sector here in the capital city. What that really means is that we're here to support community
00:59and voluntary action. And that'll be everything from helping groups set up, so helping them
01:03learn how to write a constitution, register with the charity commission, how to run a board,
01:09so a board of trustees, all the way through to helping them get funding and also helping
01:14them collectivise their voice and raise the profile of the charity sector. And then my team
01:20within the volunteer centre is going to do everything volunteering. There are absolutely
01:25loads of charities and Kylie says it's amazing to see so many people do so much good all across
01:30the city. So local groups will get free membership with us. We have over 1,300 members, so that's
01:37over 1,300 local organisations, so all the way from really small, non-constituted groups,
01:45all the way up through sort of national charities as well. And so you can imagine there's a huge
01:51diversity and a huge breadth of activity that happens within all those different organisations.
01:57As C3SC, we help administer the Volunteering Wales platform. C3SC hold an annual awards night to
02:04recognise the hard work of people from all over Cardiff. They're encouraging people to nominate
02:08charities and share stories of how different groups and organisations are changing people's lives
02:13in the capital. The Cardiff Volunteer Awards are a huge part of that. So this will be the seventh
02:18year that we've run the Cardiff Volunteer Awards and it's really one of our flagship events.
02:25We know that a lot of organisations across the city maybe don't have capacity to kind of put on
02:32award ceremonies or to put on thank you events for their volunteers. That's the reality of the funding
02:37climate right now. And so we definitely see part of our role as this local CVC in recognising and
02:44celebrating voluntary action. So yeah, seventh year running the awards. It is a nomination process,
02:51so people from the local area, people from the community, people from local groups
02:56can nominate individuals or groups to the awards.
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