Why is the matching process so important? Volunteering is a two-way process. The volunteer needs to decide if your organisation and the role is right for them, and you need to decide if they’re right for the role. It would be disappointing to go through all the hard work to get the volunteer ready to […]
VolunteerWiki on creating Volunteer Role Descriptions can be read here: Creating Volunteer Role Descriptions (PDF) What is a role description? Once you’ve talked to everyone, you might like to write up these ideas into role descriptions. A ‘role’ describes the title of the volunteer, such as ‘newsletter contributor’. A ‘task’, or set of tasks’, are activities
Why are positive volunteer and staff relations important? Often, volunteers will be involved alongside paid staff. Most of the time this works well and staff value the extra support volunteers bring. Ensuring staff support volunteers and make them feel welcome is important to ensuring volunteers have a positive experience. Here are some suggestions how you
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VolunteerWiki article on how to develop a Volunteer Policy can be read here: How to develop a volunteer policy (PDF) What is a volunteer policy? It is the main foundation that all the other building blocks for volunteering sit on. Your policy will outline clearly to all staff, volunteers and users of the service, why volunteers
VolunteerWiki article on developing a Volunteer Policy can be read here: Developing a volunteer policy for your organisation (PDF) Congratulations! You have decided to recruit volunteers for your organisation. There is no doubt that you are about to benefit from a cost-effective human resource, but your organisation is also going to benefit in other ways too:
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The key starting point to setting up a new volunteer programme is to remind yourself why your organisation wants to involve volunteers in the first place and to identify what exactly you want to achieve by involving volunteers. A clear vision and understanding as to how volunteers can contribute to your organisation will help determine
VolunteerWiki article on engaging with Young Volunteers can be read here: Engaging Young Volunteers (PDF) Recognising that young people are not just the citizens of tomorrow, but also the citizens of today, this document seeks to share practice in involving young volunteers in health-related volunteering roles. The document has been produced by the National Group for
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All volunteers in the NHS in Scotland should have an induction that is appropriate to their level of involvement, and to the nature of their volunteering role. This will help them to understand how they contribute towards the day-to-day activities of the area in which they are involved, and also how they contribute towards the
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Organisations rights To look for certain qualities and skills in volunteers To select only volunteers who are suitable for the work To draw up a volunteer agreement or ‘contract’ To ask for tasks to be done in a particular way To ask for commitment To ask for reliability To ask for punctuality To deal with
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Be Prepared! Just like another well-known volunteer organisation with that slogan, your organisation needs to be prepared. It needs to know why it wants to involve volunteers in its work, how volunteer positions fit and be ready to receive willing volunteers when contacted. The benefits of being organised and ready for volunteers are plentiful: It
