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Working With Volunteers - Good Practice & Resources

Photo of a Volunteer Manager with a group of volunteers

For 2024, we are working on producing a range of toolkits to support volunteer-involving organisations. They will be available to download from this page, so watch this space! If you can't find what you're looking for below, please get in touch - call the Volunteer Centre on 01332 342272 or email Volunteer Centre Organiser, Kesha Chawda, at kesha.chawda@communityactionderby.org.uk 


Resources

NCVO (The National Council for Voluntary Organisations)

NCVO has a whole host of resources available around involving volunteers. Their website offers practical and step by step guidance to help you manage volunteers and the process of volunteering well. 

This includes support with:

  • Planning for volunteers
  • Recruiting and welcoming volunteers
  • Supporting and managing volunteers
  • Valuing and developing volunteers

Find all this and more on the NCVO website: www.ncvo.org.uk/help-and-guidance/involving-volunteers/


Time 2 Volunteer

Time2Volunteer is a volunteering platform that has a range of helpful resources for volunteering organisations. These include:

  • Volunteer Management Templates

  • Volunteering Policies

  • Volunteering Principles & Charter

  • Volunteer Management Useful Links

Find the Time2Volunteer resources at: https://time2volunteer.org/resources/lets-get-started


Vision for Volunteering

The Vision for Volunteering is a movement to create a diverse, innovative, ambitious, equitable and person-centred future for volunteering.

It's a ten-year collaborative project that sets out a view of what volunteering needs to look like, and how this will make volunteers feel about their roles, by 2032.

Find out more about Vision for Volunteering at: www.visionforvolunteering.org.uk


Policies

We have a number of template policies that you can adapt to meet your organisation or group’s needs:


We're Here to Support You

We can help you to develop the policies and processes you need for your organisation.

We can also help with any other questions or needs around volunteering, including:

  • How you can get the best impact out of your volunteering programme (great for funders)
  • How you can build relationships with businesses
  • How you can make your volunteering programme more accessible
  • How to best support volunteers with additional support needs. For example we can put you in touch with groups and organisations who have expertise in certain disabilities and conditions, who are happy to provide you with some support and advice.

For details, please call the Volunteer Centre on 01332 342272 or email Volunteer Centre Organiser, Kesha Chawda, at kesha.chawda@communityactionderby.org.uk 

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