| That’s why the Volunteer Centre Dundee has just launched its own version to raise money for an event to honour local volunteers for all the hard work they do.
According to the Scottish Household Survey, about 20,000 people in the city have offered their time and service to a wide variety of organisations. More than 40% do voluntary work for at least three hours a month and 3% do at least 36 hours a month.
The Volunteer Centre, which acts as a one-stop shop for details about local volunteering opportunities, now wants to celebrate their efforts and selling the wristbands at £1 each will help them on their way.
They will be on sale at the centre, in Number Ten, Constitution Road, and at a volunteers fair in City Square on June 4.
Wristbands started becoming a fashionable way to back a charity or campaign thanks to American cyclist and Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong.
He used them as a way to raise money for his cancer foundation, selling an astonishing 47.5 million in just over a year.
Since then they have been used to support numerous good causes, including anti-racism in sport and a Radio One campaign against bullying at school.
Celebrities such as Nelson Mandela and U2 singer Bono have been seen sporting wristbands.
So has Prime Minister Tony Blair, who wore one for the Make Poverty History campaign to cancel Third World debt. |
