{"id":134303,"date":"2024-04-27T03:40:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T03:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=134303"},"modified":"2024-04-27T04:08:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T04:08:30","slug":"volunteering-a-great-british-passion-by-hemantha-yapa-abeywardena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/volunteering-a-great-british-passion-by-hemantha-yapa-abeywardena\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering: A Great British Passion &#8211; By  Hemantha Yapa Abeywardena"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Volunteering: A Great British Passion &#8211; <span style=\"color: #333300;\">By Hemantha Yapa Abeywardena<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134304 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Volunteering-A-Great-British-Passion-By-Hemantha-Yapa-Abeywardena-e1714189092248.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteering A Great British Passion - By Hemantha Yapa Abeywardena\" width=\"600\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><em>\u201cYou have the right to work only, but never to its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8211;\u00a0 Bhagavad Gita\u00a0 &#8211;<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-133337 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Hemantha-Yapa-Abeywardena-e1712484139182.jpg\" alt=\"Hemantha Yapa Abeywardena\" width=\"150\" height=\"128\" \/>On a crisp Wednesday morning (because of course it&#8217;s not truly spring without a hint of frost), I bumped into a squad of, shall we say, <em>seasoned<\/em> volunteers at a vast nature reserve in West London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">These weren&#8217;t your average park-walkers. This was a well-oiled machine of British courtesy, all smiles and &#8220;good mornings&#8221; in unison. They were there to tackle the park&#8217;s spring to-do list: grass-cutting, wheelbarrowing, and turning it all into a rather posh horse salad. Teamwork flowed like tea on a wet Wednesday, with a designated leader calling the shots (including the sacrosanct tea break, because priorities).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;You missed a corker on Monday,&#8221; one chimed in, a twinkle in her eye. &#8220;We had proper horses doing the mowing! Old-fashioned and all that.&#8221; Now that&#8217;s a visual I&#8217;d have paid good money (or maybe a leftover biscuit) to see!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Mud-caked boots and gloves were their badges of honour. These weren&#8217;t folks afraid to get their hands dirty, and their garden overalls offered a certain, ahem, <em>rustic<\/em> charm. But don&#8217;t be fooled by the attire. Chat with them, and you&#8217;ll find refined wit bubbling up faster than a kettle on the boil. Retired civil servants, military veterans, doctors \u2013 you name it, this crew had probably done it all. Now, they were giving back to nature, a way of saying thanks for everything from the morning dew to, well, maybe even the Big Bang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Imagine if the council had to pay for all this? It&#8217;d cost a king&#8217;s ransom! But these volunteers, bless their cotton socks, are the lifeblood of keeping these green spaces ship-shape. It&#8217;s a quintessentially British tradition, this volunteering lark. As the temperature climbs (slowly, because, it is Britain), so does the spirit of volunteerism across the land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">And let&#8217;s not forget the wildlife! Bee havens were carefully crafted, with designated &#8220;don&#8217;t touch&#8221; patches where wildflowers could go gloriously rogue. It&#8217;s a win-win for everyone, even the creepy-crawlies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">So, how does one become a volunteer? Well, it&#8217;s not a walk in the park (although, with this group, it might be!). There might be an interview involved, perhaps a test on your scone-dodging abilities (jam-related incidents are a national security risk, after all) or folding a tea towel with military precision. But fear not, a firm handshake and a mumbled &#8220;Lovely weather, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221; should see you through.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The pinnacle of British volunteering, however, is the tea break. A sacred ritual involving steaming mugs and a generous offering to any passer-by in need of a &#8220;cuppa.&#8221; Mastering the art of the &#8220;just a splash of milk, thanks&#8221; is key, though a side of gossip about, say, the latest antics involving Elizabeth Hurley and her son, may be practically attractive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Volunteering has snowballed into a national treasure, a badge of honour that goes beyond good deeds. It shows you&#8217;re a well-rounded human, not just a bookworm or a nerd. Universities and employers are all on the bandwagon, looking for well-balanced applicants with a healthy dose of do-goodery on their CVs. 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