National Volunteer Week in New Zealand
National Volunteer Week in New Zealand is held on June 21. Held from the third Sunday in June. This event in the third decade of the month June is annual. 
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This week we're celebrating all our awesome volunteers as part of National Volunteer Week!
Volunteering is part of New Zealand's culture. Volunteering is a two-way street. People in New Zealand volunteer to help non-profit community groups provide much needed services. We get way more than we give. It is not only about sharing expertise, but about sharing experience. We are a volunteering nation, close to 50% of people in New Zealand give up their time to volunteer. The number of people who volunteered at a community organisation in 2018 was 1,008,000 (a figure which VNZ has previously used together with other data to arrive at 21.5% estimate of New Zealanders who participate in 'formal volunteering').
Given that today is National Volunteer Week, we want to reach out to volunteers across the country and say thank you so much.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Mangaia Gospel Day on June 15 (Cook Islands);
International Tartan Day on July 1 (Tartan Day is a celebration of Scottish heritage on 6 April, the date on which the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320. It originated in Canada in the mid-1980s. It spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora in the 1990s. In Australia the similar International Tartan Day is held on 1 July, the anniversary of the repeal of the 1747 Act of Proscription that banned the wearing of tartan. Tartan Days typically have parades of pipe bands, Highland dancing and other Scottish-themed events);
International Lamington Day on July 21
Constitution Day on the Cook Islands on August 4
Random Acts of Kindness Day in New Zealand on September 1
Tokehega Day on September 3 (Tokelau, New Zealand);
Father's Day in Australia on September 7 (also Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea is celebrated on the first Sunday of September)
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