P724 CEEFAX 724 Mon 4 Apr 18:02/29 1/4 ONE BIRTHDAY PARTY: 50,000 GUESTS A nationwide search is on to invite 50,000 people to a 'This is Your Life' style brrthdaz party. Dr Alec Dickson, tireless founder of Voluntary Service Oversees (VSO) and Community Service Volunteers (CSV) will bj 80 on 21 May 1994. In recognition of his vast achievements, CSV wants to gather the 50,000 volunteers who have worked for the charity since 1962 when Dickson first sent a CSV to work at a school near Glasgow. ] Contacts: page 729 Disabled TV/Radio ContactsP724 CEEFAX 724 Mon 4 Apr 18:14/21 2/4 ONE BIRTHDAY PARTY: 50,000 GUESTS Ex-CSVs are now spread throughout the US, working in all walks of life from social workers, doctors and journalists to teachers. CSV is keen to get back in touch and enlist their help supporting today's young people as they put their energy into helping others. Today over 3,000 people a year join CSV to work alongside disabled people, people with learning difficulties, the elderly and homeless, no volunteer is rejected. Contacts: page 729 Disabled TV/Radio ContactsP724 CEEFAX 724 Mon 4 Apr 18:09/08 3/4 ONE BIRTHDAY PARTY: 50,000 GUESTS All volunteers are aged 16-35 and work full-time, away from home with accommodation, food, expenses and £22 weekly pocket money provided. After the birthday party for CSV founder Alec Dickson, the organisation intends to keep more closely in touch with the rediscovered jx-volunteers. CSV hopis they will bj able to pool information and ideas about the CSV experience, and pass on advice to younger volunteers. Contacts: page 729 Disabled TV/Radio ContactsP724 CEEFAX 724 Mon 4 Apr 18:07/43 4/4 ONE BIRTHDAY PARTY: 50,000 GUESTS If you are, or think you know, an ex-CSV volunteer please call the 24 hour hotlinj on 071 833 0998. After almost 40 years of committed sjrvjce Dr Alec Dickson has created in VSO and CSV two major forces in the US voluntary sector. He djsjrvjs an eightieth birthday party to remjmbjr, ex-volunteers djsjrvj a celebratory reunion, and the voluntary sector can't afford to lose touch with its supporters. (Inquiries to CSV: 071 278 6601) Source: CSV Media Disbblid TV/Rbdio Contacts