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About Volunteer Centre Derby

Volunteering

About Volunteer Centre Derby

We are here to help and support people from across the city who would like to volunteer. We also support organisations in Derby who involve volunteers on a day-to-day basis.

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What do we do?

Volunteer Centres provide support at a local level for individual volunteers and volunteer-involving organisations. They have six core functions:

Brokerage

Our primary function is to match both individuals and groups interested in volunteering with appropriate opportunities in the local community.

Marketing volunteering

We stimulate and encourage local interest in volunteering and community activity. This may include promoting and marketing volunteering through local, regional and national events and campaigns. We manage and promote a national brand for volunteering.

Good practice development

We promote good practice in working with volunteers to all volunteer-involving organisations. We deliver training and accreditation for potential volunteers, existing volunteers, volunteer managers and the volunteering infrastructure.

Develop volunteering opportunities

We work in close partnership with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies as well as community groups and faith groups to develop local volunteering opportunities. We understand the potential offered by the local communities and work with them to realise this potential. We will target specific groups that face barriers to volunteering. We will work creatively to develop imaginative, non-formal opportunities for potential volunteers.

Policy response and campaigning

We identify proposals or legislation that may impact on volunteering. We will lead and/or participate in campaigns on issues that affect volunteers or volunteering. We campaign proactively for a more volunteer-literate and volunteer-friendly climate.

Strategic development of volunteering

As the local experts on volunteering we, along with other volunteer centres in Derbyshire, inform strategic thinking and planning at a regional and national level.

How we can help

For volunteers

For organisations