Volunteering England

Volunteering England works to support an increase in the quality, quantity, impact and accessibility of volunteering throughout England.
They are an independent voluntary agency committed to supporting, enabling and celebrating volunteering in all its diversity.
Their work links research, policy innovation, good practice and grant making in the involvement of volunteers
Volunteering England offers an array of services designed to help and support everyone who works with volunteers. Whether you're a volunteer manager, running a volunteer centre, working with a volunteer-involving organisation or involved with volunteers in any capacity.

• general information
• finding local support
• training near you
• investing in volunteers
• volunteering opportunties
• latest news

General information on volunteer management

Find out how other people manage their volunteers…
In the good practice bank pages you’ll find

• articles
• information sheets
• links and
• other helpful guidance on a range of volunteering issues.

Each section also includes example and template documents to help you develop your own.

Other information from Volunteering England

Visit the new On-line information sheets all about Volunteer Management

Find good practice tips on How to write a volunteer policy

Find out how Volunteering England information team can help you
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Find local support for your sport club on volunteering

Volunteer Centres provide support at a local level for individual volunteers and volunteer involving organisations.

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Training near you… for volunteer co-ordinators or managers

EVM is designed to enable managers of volunteers to take charge of their own learning. It provides multiple options and ‘blended learning’ to suit specific learning needs and preferences – all of which are accessible on the EVM website.

EVM provides managers of volunteers with the opportunity to:

• gain a recognised qualification
• choose from a wealth of learning resources
• join a network of like-minded managers of volunteers.

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Ensure your sport club is at the cutting edge of volunteering

Investing in volunteers is the UK quality standard for all organisations which involve volunteers in their work. The standard enables organisations to comprehensively review their volunteer management, and also publicly demonstrates their commitment to volunteering.

Investing in volunteers can be used in two stages:

• By using the standard as a framework for volunteer management (see the IiV Standard under “key documents”). You can use the standard for free, to inform your volunteer policy, planning or strategy.
• By signing up to achieve the standard. This will mean working towards the full price standard over a number of months.

If you have clubmark you should be able to demonstrate that your club meets 7 out of the 10 IiV indicators. The 3 remaining indicators are specifically on volunteer management, as clubmark does not currently contain any good practice on volunteer management within clubs. For further information see the mapping guide http://mapping.investinginvolunteers.org.uk/ .
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Look online for volunteering opportunities all over the country

Visit do-it.org.uk and find volunteers for your organisation or search through over 800,000 opportunities to volunteer. This is the only national database of volunteer opportunities. Most of the volunteering opportunities are uploaded by Volunteer Centres across England – some other organisations can also arrange access to upload opportunities directly. Either way, work in conjunction with your local Volunteer Centre for best effect.

http://www.do-it.org.uk/
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Keep up to date with volunteer management, policy and news..

Sign up to be a member of Volunteering England:

http://www.volunteering.org.uk/WhoWeAre/joinus
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