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All Volunteering England/National Centre for Volunteering publications can be obtained from www.volunteering.org.uk

Disabled people

Volunteering for Everyone: A guide for organisations who want to include and recruit volunteers who have a learning disability - Volunteering England/Mencap

Can Do Volunteering: a guide to involving young disabled people as volunteers - Scope and Leonard Cheshire

Recruiting, Retaining and Developing disabled volunteers - Disability Rights Commission

Time to get equal in volunteering: tackling disablism (Executive Summary) - Scope

Employer-supported volunteering

Employee Volunteering: the guide - National Centre for Volunteering & Employees in the Community Network

Community Investment: The impacts of employee volunteering at Barclays Bank (Research Bulletin) - Institute for Volunteering Research

Ex-offenders

Involving Ex-offenders in Volunteering - Volunteering England/NACRO

Homeless People

Homeless People and Volunteering - Kate Bowgett (Off the Streets and into Work)

Managing volunteers

Volunteer Driver's Handbook - Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

Volunteers and the Law - Mark Restall (Volunteering England)

Risk Toolkit: How to take care of risk in volunteering - A guide for organisations. A comprehensive guide to risk management in relation to volunteers - Katherine Gaskin (Institute for Volunteering Research/Volunteering England)

Turn your organisation into a volunteer magnet - Ed. Andy Fryar, Rob Jackson and Fraser Dyer

VIVA: The volunteer investment and value audit (Research Bulletin) - Institute for Volunteering Research

Be a better manager.com Tools and information for managers in general including volunteer managers

Mental Health

Volunteering for mental health - Institute for Volunteering Research

Older People

Volunteering, self-help and citizenship in later life - Susan Baines, Mabel Lie and Jane Wheelock (Age Concern Newcastle and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

Active ageing in active communities: volunteering and the transition to retirement - Justin Davis Smith and Pat Gay (Institute for Volunteering Research, 2005)

Barrier or opportunity: Insurance for older volunteers - Judith Unell (VITA)

The indispensable backbone of voluntary action: measuring and valuing the contribution of older volunteers - Colin Rochester & Brian Thomas (VITA)

Intergenerational volunteering in schools: a research project - Denise Murphy (VITA)

Toolkit for involving older disabled volunteers - Jaya Gajparia (VITA)

Toolkit for involving older black and minority ethnic volunteers - Sally Price (VITA)

Insurance guide for volunteers - Judith Unell (VITA)

A Golden Opportunity: A guide to attracting and retaining older volunteers - Janet Rutherford (VITA)

Refugees/Asylum seekers

Working with Volunteers: A management guide for refugee community organisations - Kate Bowgett & Lynne Gillett

Social Exclusion

Volunteering for All? Exploring the link between volunteering and social exclusion - Institute for Volunteering Research

Social, Health and Palliative care

Changing the face of social services: volunteers adding value in service delivery - Alex Parish, Jane Heath & Meryem Hassan (National Centre for Volunteering)

Volunteers across the NHS: Improving the patient experience and creating a patient-led experience - Sheila Hawkins and Mark Restall (Volunteering England)

Students

Making it happen: A guide for small organisation on how to involve student volunteers - Student Volunteering England

Student volunteering: Involving further education students in the community - Student Volunteering UK

The Art of Crazy Paving - Student Volunteering UK

Unemployed People

The benefits barrier: What impact do welfare benefits have on volunteering? - John Ramsey

A guide to volunteering while on benefits - Department for Work and Pensions

Volunteering and availability for work: An evaluation of the change to Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations - Katharine Gaskin (Department for Work and Pensions)

Young People

Generation V: Young people speak out on volunteering (Research Bulletin) - Institute for Volunteering Research

A national framework for youth action and engagement - Russell Commission

What young people want from volunteering - Institute for Volunteering Research

Are you thinking of conducting a survey? If so try this!

Submitted by nshaw on Tue, 17/06/2008 - 1:07pm.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/Home_Landing.aspx SurveyMonkey is used by coMMUni at Manchester Metropolitan University, which is where I got the original link, SurveyMonkey is straightforward, easy and looks really professional; add to this other options in relation to dissemination, i.e. graphs etc, and for a FREE basic package it’s fantastic; espescially when you consider some of the silly prices that organisations are charging to do the same thing. You can of course upgrade it but for basic questionnaires up to 10 questions it more than does the job, perhaps if people develop questionnaires they could be shared with AVM members, anyway have a look see what you think.
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