National Volunteer Week (NVW) has come to an end and we hope it was successful for you and your organisation.

Certainly the media recognition of NVW was at an all time high with more than 800 media clippings already identified promoting and recognising volunteering.

NVW is all about saying thank you to volunteers for their mighty efforts. Thank you to the organisations that chose to use NVW to publicly thank their own volunteers. Volunteering Australia and State Volunteer Centres have achieved fantastic coverage and worked hard with the media to ensure volunteering was at the forefront of news during the week.

You may be interested to know that we distributed 40,000 NVW lapel pins and more than 30,000 posters. We gratefully acknowledge the support of NAB and FaHCSIA for their sponsorship of NVW. We could not achieve what we did without their wonderful and generous support.

Make sure you note the dates for NVW 2009 – May 11th to 17th.