volunteering

Welcome to the Shropshire Volunteering Hub

This on-line resource aims to bring together all services and information on the the topic of volunteering in one central place for the voluntary and community groups in Shropshire.

Brokerage

Matching up people interested in volunteering with opportunities and/or volunteer involving organisations

- Informing members of the community interested in volunteering on volunteering in general and specific volunteering opportunities

- Matching up people interested in volunteering with opportunities and/or volunteer involving organisations

- Providing an outreach facility in rural and urban settings, ensuring a more equal accessibility of the service

- On-line support to requests of information from members of the community on volunteering opportunities

Marketing volunteering

Promoting volunteering and community involvement as well as specific volunteering opportunities

- Promoting volunteering and community involvement at community events, forums, national events (Volunteers Week, Make a Difference Day, etc)

- Promotion of volunteering opportunities on behalf of volunteer involving

organisations, using on-line facilities (VBase), the media, promotional materials, in house database

Good practice development

A commitment to promoting good practice in working with volunteers to all volunteer involving organisations, and actively supporting and maintaining this

- Providing information, guidelines and briefings on good practice in working with volunteers to all volunteer-involving organisations

- Actively supporting and maintaining good practice in working with volunteers via one to one support

- Actively supporting, maintaining and improving good practice in working with volunteers via facilitation of opportunities to share experiences, improve cooperative working, learning and stimulating discussion

- Development of good practice materials, guidelines and supporting documents, and promotion of these materials

- Providing an outreach facility in rural and urban settings, improving accessibility to good practice advice

Developing volunteering opportunities

Developing innovative volunteering opportunities for potential volunteers, ensuring that opportunities are available for all locally agreed definition

- Identifying gaps in volunteering opportunities and the need for specific

Opportunities – Proactively develop volunteering opportunities to fill the gaps and satisfy the need for specific opportunities

- Develop innovative volunteering opportunities for potential volunteers, ensuring that opportunities are available for all

- Information provision on good practice in developing volunteering opportunities and working with volunteers

- Support new or existing groups to develop their (new) volunteering opportunities

Policy response and campaigning

Influencing policy development which takes account of the ways this may affect volunteers and volunteering activities.

- Consultation at community level on policy development that may affect

volunteering / volunteers and feeding this back to policy makers

- Initiate a campaign if a policy development or change in policy may affect

volunteering / volunteers and a response is not taken into account

- Influencing policy development which takes account of the ways this may affect volunteers and volunteering activities via local lobbying and campaigning

Strategic development of volunteering

Taking strategic responsibility for the support and development of local volunteer involving organisations and networks, good practice development, and support for the development of local policy that facilitates volunteering

- Taking strategic responsibility for the support and development of local volunteer involving organisations and networks

- Taking strategic responsibility for good practice development, including

championing the local Compact and its Volunteering Code of Practice

- Taking strategic responsibility for the support of local policy development that facilitates volunteering

- Proactive development of policy that facilitates volunteering where this is not developed by others

- Providing a voice for the volunteering sector, via (facilitating) representation

- Facilitating and initiating consultation on volunteering issues

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