Activities Volunteering
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Welcome to ISKCON London Volunteering. you will find a great choice of services for you to get involved with. Check out our 'What’s on Now' Board for the latest volunteer service needs. About the Radha-Krishna Temple in London The Radha-Krishna Temple in the heart of London is a place dedicated to the spiritual upliftment of human society. It is a God-centred community enabling people from all walks of life to find refuge, a sense of belonging and fellowship, and spiritual meaning and fulfilment. Open 4.30 a.m. to 9.30 p.m. every day of the year. A dedicated team of resident devotees and a large group of volunteers work constantly throughout the year to run the centre i.e. cooking, teaching, cleaning, repairing, doing administrative and cleaning and repairing. Housing a beautiful shrine, shop and restaurant, college facilities, ashram, venue of public festivals, the temple is a now major hub of spiritual activity. |
SecurityGeneral | Saturday, 10 May 2008 Due to a rise in petty thefts in the soho area we have started using volunteer security staff to look after the temple areas and restuarant ,just in the last six months of introducing security staff to the temple our crime rate has dropped very significantly.The security not only prevent bag thefts and coat thefts from the temple and restuarant,but ... Read More |
Food for lifeGeneral | Saturday, 10 May 2008 Food for life goes out to feed the homeless four times a week ,monday -thursday ,volunteers help to prepare and cook ,as well as serve from the van ,its a very engaging and rewarding service ,there is a very strong sense of team work with the food for life team if you would like to get ... Read More |
Sunday feast volunteerGeneral | Thursday, 8 May 2008 Sunday feast volunteering will mainly involve helping in preparing the sunday feast such as preparing vegetables, cooking , serving and cleaning,Serving the feast in the temple room and restaurant ,washing the pots,cleaning the kitchen and restaurant after the feast The sunday feasts service teams are a great way to make friends and discover your Krishna consciousness in a fun ... Read More |
Pujari assistantGeneral | Saturday, 15 March 2008 Assisting the pujaris involves general cleaning, food preperation, garland making and cleaning the diety worship parphenalia. Volunteers in this department are required to be following the four regulative principles and chanting hare krishna ... Read More |
DriversGeneral | Wednesday, 24 October 2007 We have regular visits from senior sanyasis and a Volunteer is needed to collect /deliver devotees to and from the airport or other temples.drivers are expected to be responsible and to have clean drivers license,other driving services include ,driving the pujaris to the vegetable and flower markets in the mornings ,picking up bhoga from food warehouse once a week .book ... Read More |
Book DistributionGeneral | Wednesday, 24 October 2007 Book distribution is one of the key activites at Soho street temple for which it is famous world wide.We require volunteers to distribute book for Marathons, Maha Saturday sankirtan or on adhoc basis suited to your individual time.The last saturday of each month we have an open book distrubution day for all and everyone to get involved in,you can join ... Read More |
CleaningGeneral | Wednesday, 24 October 2007 Cleaning has allways been a great part of vaisnava culture, from kings to beggers everyone takes part in cleaning krishnas temple.Volunteers are allways much appreciated,,help is allways needed ,to clean the kitchen, stairs,kitchen pots,templeroom ,and common areas.Cleaning service is available all day everyday,please feel free to come and get involved ,Throughout vaisnava culture simple menial service in krishnas ... Read More |
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