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Activities of Bury Women's Voluntary Service
Cups of tea, meals on wheels, and surviving a nuclear attack - Bury Women's Voluntary Service can help with all of these, and more.
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Meet the dedicated members of the Women's Voluntary Service as they carry out their varied and valuable work. From civil defence protection to sorting second hand clothes, from practising first aid to delivering meals on wheels, there is little that these enthusiastic volunteers will not tackle to assist vulnerable members of their community.
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