Templates & Policies - Volunteer Centre Western Isles

Volunteer Centre Western Isles

Templates & Policies

Matching the Right Volunteer the Right Role

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 then to find out that’s ...

Volunteer Role Descriptions

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 that the volunteer will be ...

Promoting Positive Volunteer and Staff Relations

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 can help create positive relationships ...

How to Develop a Volunteer Policy

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 are involved. Also, if you’re ...

Developing a volunteer policy for your organisation

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: Volunteers are a true reflection ...