Summary of ideas submitted in the Social and voluntary category…

• Volunteer “clean ups” of scenic areas.
• Volunteering on building schools.
• Volunteers sharing their skills
• Volunteers to finish housing schemes for affordable housing schemes.
• Vouchers sold in shops for ‘one night stay in a hostel’ that people could then give to the homeless.
• Website to barter skills.
• When someone becomes unemployed it would be worthwhile if they had to register with volunteer.ie
• Why doesn’t the Government means test disability payments?
• Work for your welfare.
• Work placement scheme where struggling companies contact the recently unemployed.
• Write a book for the unemployed.
• Writing a cookbook to help people cope with the recession.