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The resouces section of the Jason Tanner website acts as a supplement to his main activities as a news commentator, journalist, writer, broadcaster, royal historian, London visitor guide and advocate for free speech, democracy and the role of a constititional monarchy. It is not at all definitive and you are invited to make contact by email or phone, if urgent: jason@jasontanner.uk |+44 7941 433598
Free Speech
Free Speech
The Defend campaign for free speech is a volunteer led initiative set up by Jason Tanner in the UK on 10th March 2026. It provides free information and signposts sources of resource materials and information from other organisations.
CSV (Community Service Volunteers) changed its name to Volunteering Matters in 2015. It was the brainchild of former Colonial Service official, Dr Alec Dickson and his wife Mora who created it in 1962; partly in reaction to another NGO they'd started a few years earlier now known as VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas). I was told by CSV's very first and long standing member of staff, Dame Elisabeth Hoodless, that Alec had started to feel that volunteering overseas was a bit of a luxury and that at the very least, every young person in this country shoud be supported to be able to give their time to their commumities if in turn they were supported to do so.
The UK's Volunteers in the media
The UK's Volunteers in the media
Purely by accident Jason Tanner came across a far-sighted, ambitious automated project underway in the USA since the 1990s which seeks to randomly capture snapshots of internet pages and websites before they disappear. It's unclear why the Wayback Machine, based in San Francisco strayed over the Atlantic and latched onto a fairly primitive (by today's standard) version of CSV's website; especially its media operation. Whatever the reason, this random archiving has preserved part of a period at the start of the century (circa 2003-06 when I started at CSV) and shows the huge impact and range of activities of British volunteers being showcased to media via the CSV Press Office and associated media press officers assigned to CSV's higher profile campaigns such as CSV Make a Difference Day or the Year of the Volunteer 2005 (Click or tap the red wayback machine button above to access).
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