Volunteer Managers Skill Sharing

Well as The European Year of Volunteering is underway, (supposedly) we thought we'd focus our Charter Chatter on the European themes which for March and April is Children and Young People.
Have a look at Charter Chatter to see, relevant case studies as well as resources, reports and research.
This month we'd like to focus the Chatter on National Citizen Service- what are you views?

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Hello Everyone,

Well 2011 (The European Year of the Volunteer) seems to be flying by. This months Charter Chatter is "Resolving Difficulties" so check the link if you'd like to look at the quick tips and available resources. 

As for the chatter it would be great to hear from you

The Experts in Volunteering Project plans to offer capacity building work to more 'small' London organisations that engage volunteers, or are indeed completely run by volunteers and may not be hooked up with useful local networks and VCs. One of our VC good practice partners is thinking about compiling some guidelines for outreach and working with such groups.
Not wishing to re-invent the wheel, we're wondering if guidelines already exist somewhere? Tips on what works and what doesn't?

Hi Folks,

It's Charter Chatter time and October brings us to the subject of Personal Development of Volunteers which is the  5th point on London's Volunteer management Charter.

There is only ONE NHS Trust which has so far signed up to the Greater London Volunteering Charter!

NHS VMS's are surely some of the best organised Volunteer Managers in the country, so they are all being invited to a meeting at University College Hospital London to see how they can sign up and get lots of "Brownie points" for very little work!

E-mail lesley.borzoni@uclh.nhs.uk for details

This months charter chatter (linked to London's Volunteer Management Charter)  topic is organsiational involvement, in short how do  you ensure volunteers feel part of your organisations DNA, so to speak.

 Click to read the charter chatter which gives tips and links to relevant resources.

This months  discussion question is

Many of you will have heard of London's Volunteer Management Charter

Does anybody out there have some examples of good and bad volunteer policies?  I can write some but I thought if there are some I could use (for a training workshop) then it would save me a lot of time.

things to think about when writing a volunteers policy within your organisation:

 - who has written the rest of the organsiations policies - perhaps with your help they should be the person writing the volunteer policy?

- if you are writing it make sure it is in a similar style to other policies in the organisation so that there is congruence

- make sure that representatives from within the organisation who engage with volunteers are consulted at every stage to ensure ownership and buy in of the policy