Thanks for coming everyone.

谢谢大家的到来。

OK, so this meeting is for new staff and staff who haven't been involved with our volunteering projects yet.

好的，这个会议是为新员工和那些还没有参与我们的志愿者项目的员工准备的。

So basically, the idea is that we allow staff to give up some of their work time to help on various charity projects to benefit the local community.

所以基本上，我们的想法是允许员工放弃一些工作时间来帮助各种慈善项目来造福当地社区。

We've been doing this for the last five years and it's been very successful.

我们在过去五年一直坚持做这件事，并且取得了很大的成功。

Participating doesn't necessarily involve a huge time commitment.

参与不一定要投入大量的时间。

The company will pay for eight hours of your time.

公司将支付你八小时的工资。

That can be used over one or two days all at once, or spread over several months throughout the year.

员工可以在一两天内一次性消耗掉这八小时，或者在一年时间内的几个月中分次使用。

There are some staff who enjoy volunteering so much they also give up their own free time for a couple of hours every week.

有一些员工非常喜欢做志愿者，他们也放弃了自己的空闲时间每周几个小时。

It's completely up to you.

这完全取决于你。

Obviously, many people will have family commitments and aren't as available as other members of staff.

很明显，很多人会有家庭责任，不像其他员工那样有空。

Feedback from staff has been overwhelmingly positive.

来自员工的反馈非常积极。

Because they felt they were doing something really useful, nearly everyone agreed that volunteering made them feel more motivated at work.

因为他们觉得自己在做一些真正有用的事情，几乎所有人都认为志愿活动让他们在工作中更有动力。

They also liked building relationships with the people in the local community and felt valued by them.

他们也喜欢与当地社区的人建立关系，并备受重视。

One or two people also said it was a good thing to have on their CVs.

有一两个人也说，在他们的简历上有这样的经历是件好事。

One particularly successful project last year was the Get Working Project.

去年一个特别成功的项目是Get Working项目。

This was aimed at helping unemployed people in the area get back to work.

这是为了帮助该地区的失业者重返工作岗位。

Our staff were able to help them improve their telephone skills, such as writing down messages and speaking with confidence to potential customers, which they had found quite difficult.

我们的员工能够帮助他们提高他们的电话技能，例如写留言和信心十足地与潜在客户交谈，而这对他们来说是相当困难的。

This is something many employers look for in job applicants - and something we all do without even thinking about, every day at work.

这是许多雇主在求职者身上寻找的东西——也是我们每天在工作中甚至都没有考虑过的事情。

We've got an exciting new project starting this year.

我们今年开始了一个令人兴奋的新项目。

Up until now, we've mainly focused on projects to do with education and training.

到目前为止，我们主要专注于教育和培训项目。

And we'll continue with our reading project in schools and our work with local charities.

我们将继续我们在学校的阅读项目和我们与当地慈善机构的合作。

But we've also agreed to help out on a conservation project in Redfern Park.

但我们也同意在红蕨公园的一个保护项目上提供帮助。

So if any of you fancy being outside and getting your hands dirty, this is the project for you.

所以如果你们中有谁喜欢到外面去亲力亲为，这就是你们的项目。

I also want to mention the annual Digital Inclusion Day, which is coming up next month.

我还想提到下个月即将举行的一年一度的“数码共融日”。

The aim of this is to help older people keep up with technology.

该活动的目的是帮助老年人跟上科技的发展。

And this year, instead of hosting the event in our own training facility, we're using the ICT suite at Hill College, as it can hold far more people.

今年，我们不再在我们自己的培训机构举办这次活动，而是使用希尔学院的信息与计算机技术中心，因为它可以容纳更多的人。

We've invited over 60 people from the Silver Age Community Centre to take part, so we'll need a lot of volunteers to help with this event.

我们邀请了60多名来自银器时代社区中心的人参加，所以我们需要很多志愿者来帮助这个活动。

If you're interested in taking part, please go to the volunteering section of our website and complete the relevant form.

如果你有兴趣参加，请到我们网站的志愿者板块填写相关表格。

We won't be providing any training for this but you'll be paired with an experienced volunteer if you've never done it before.

我们不会为此提供任何培训，但如果你以前从未做过，我们会为你安排一位经验丰富的志愿者。

By the way, don't forget to tell your manager about any volunteering activities you decide to do.

顺便说一下，不要忘记告诉你的经理你决定做的任何志愿活动。