National Lottery Heritage Grants £10,000 to £250,000
Founded by three Swansea University students in 1966, Discovery Student Volunteering Swansea has been providing young people with opportunities to get involved in their communities ever since.
To mark its 60th anniversary, the organisation is exploring and preserving its heritage through oral histories and a new archive.
Past and present volunteers, including the organisation’s original founders, will work together to curate a bilingual archive of memories, photos, documents and memorabilia recording a long tradition of volunteering through changing times.
The collection will be made available in both digital and printed format and will be stored with the People's Collection Wales and Swansea University's Richard Burton Archive.
Eleanor Norton, Managing Director at Discovery Student Volunteering Swansea said: “We are so pleased to receive this grant to help us celebrate our 60th anniversary. Discovery represents 60 years of student volunteers coming together to use their energies to make the community around them safer, stronger and happier by delivering and being part of a huge range of projects.
“We are delighted to be able to mark this important anniversary, collect some of the amazing stories from all those years and to draw attention to the incredible impact our volunteers have.’’
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