Irish charities need your help. They need more volunteers...

Volunteering has increased dramatically over the past couple of months with some volunteer centres reporting a 100 per cent increase in January compared with the same month last year.

This is great news for some community and voluntary organisations who are experiencing big cutbacks but still need to raise money for their charities.

If you have some spare time and would like to help out some very worthy causes click on the links below and help make a difference ...