Get involved

Registering on the AVM website

The simplest and quickest way of getting involved in by registering on this website. It's free and it'll allow you to post comments on some of the content on the site, including in the discussion forum. We'd love to hear from you. Registering is a great way of dipping your toe in the water- before jumping in and becoming a paid up member of AVM.

Click here for a guide to what you can do on the AVM website once you register.

How to join

AVM is a membership organisation and needs members if it is to grow and achieve these aims. If you are involved in volunteer management and would like to support these aims AVM would love to hear from you. By becoming a member you'll be supporting volunteer managers across the country as well as getting access to a range of benefits that will help you in your own work to support volunteers.

The field of volunteer management is broad. You might directly manage or coordinate volunteers yourself. You might be paid or do this in a voluntary capacity. You might lead or administer a volunteering programme. Equally you may be involved in volunteer management in the private, public or voluntary sector. Whatever your involvement in the field of volunteer management AVM would like you to be part of this new association.

Membership Benefits

To be able to take full advantage of many of these benefits you'll need to be able to access AVM's website:

• Peer Groups - join a group made up of volunteer managers from your local area or who work in a similar type of volunteering
  
• Skills Sharing - find out what skills other volunteer managers can share with you and offer your own to the volunteer managers community
• Training calendar - keep up-to-date on all the upcoming events in the volunteer manager calendar
• Events register - get the inside track to training sessions offered by AVM members and publicise your own training sessions
• List of venues for hire - discover more about possible venues for hire for volunteering events
• FAQs - read up on articles written and updated by AVM members about frequently asked questions in volunteer management
• Forums - discuss and share your thoughts and ideas with others
• Blogs - share your views on a recent event or news or simply tell your story of managing volunteering as you live it
  
• E-newsletter - a roundup of all the news and views from AVM

Click here for a guide to what you can do on the AVM website once you become a member.

Annual Membership Fees

Annual subscription is based on annual salary:

Join for 4 years and get one year free. i.e. 5 years for the cost of 4!

To join please read our code of conduct for members, and then download and fill in the application form below, sending it back to us with payment. We aim to process your membership within 7 days.

Please send a cheque made payable to the 'Association of Volunteer Managers' to:
Association of Volunteer Managers, 9 Stamford Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD17 4QS

OR contact us at info@volunteermanagers.org.uk to transfer your membership fee to our bank account.

AVM Subgroups

If you're interested in joining in the management of AVM, as a member, you can join one of our subgroups. You can get involved from wherever you're based in England in any of the following:

• Membership services
• Campaigns and policy
• Website development