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Appendix B What is Recognised as Service?

• Social or personal development activities that are undertaken to benefit others, for example: completing a sports coaching course, participating in training to become a tutor, singing in the choir for a community Christmas Carols event. • The service component of community programmes, for example: mentoring younger students at Church, unpaid work at a sports clubs, practical assistance at a cultural event. • Work for non-profit organisations, for example: animal welfare, culture, education, health, disability services, refugee support or environmental sustainability. • Participation in citizenship or leadership service activities, for example: Youth Advisory Councils, Youth Parliament or ANZAC Day services. • Home-based service, for example: young carers who undertake significant responsibility for aged, young, disabled or the ill. • Fundraising activities that require planning, organisation, and collection of sponsors or donations, for example: House-led fundraising activities, volunteering at a collection post for a charity, assisting with charity door knock appeals. • Service components built into school curriculum, for example: the care or restoration of historical sites through a relevant subject area, environmental restoration projects as part of a Science programme. • Activities that benefit the College environment or other students, for example: filling a support role at a College sporting, cultural or fundraising event, mentoring a younger student at recess or lunch time, assisting at Club Somerset to support younger students with homework/ activities, serving at a staff/parent event.

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