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  The issue of parenting is never far away from the headlines.
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  This week is Footsteps Cerebral Palsy Awareness Week (May 11–18) and local charity Footsteps Foundation has been celebrating the achievements of the children who receive intensive physiotherapy at the Footsteps Centre in Dorchester-on-Thames.
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  Oxfordshire has well over 3,000 charities and community groups and tens of thousands of volunteers, and they all deserve recognition.
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  Advocacy work is an eye-opener, according to one of the volunteers at Oxfordshire Advocacy, a free service that helps people to get their voice heard and their wishes taken into account.
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  It is incredible how people of all ages from the village get involved and do whatever they can to help,” says Steph Forman, Director of the Dorchester Festival.
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  Volunteers help organisations in many ways. A support service for bereaved children and families, has found a very important new role for some of its long-term supporters.
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  Donkeys are herd animals but they also make one particular friend with whom they pass their days, eating and dozing and enjoying the peace and care they receive at a sanctuary near Wallingford.
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  Ever got lost? Or lost someone you look after? It can be a frightening experience.
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  An Oxfordshire team of specially trained volunteers is getting ready to welcome search and rescue teams from across the UK to the region to take part in a major missing persons search training exercise.
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  People from all across Oxford will be picking up their spades and getting stuck in to a national day of volunteering this Saturday.
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