Templates & Policies

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 how you support, involve and ...

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 Volunteering. It describes how volunteering ...

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 overall vision and goals of ...

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 disciplinary and grievance matters To ...

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 sets the stage for an ...