Volunteer Friendly
Volunteer Friendly involves working through a checklist of best practice, organised into five strands. This produces an action plan to help you to develop a portfolio of evidence showing the quality of your work with volunteers. To assist your progress through the Award an accompanying online toolkit www.volunteerfriendly.org.uk provides guidance, examples and templates (GET).
There are five strands to Volunteer Friendly:
- Commitment to Involving Volunteers
(Understanding why your group uses volunteers) - Making Volunteering Happen
(Money, management, staff time and materials) - Fair & Equal Volunteering
(Volunteer diversity, equal opportunities, fair recruitment, references and checks) - Volunteering Tasks & Getting Them Done
(Developing task descriptions, training and the support needs of individuals) - Celebrating Volunteers’ Contributions
There are three tasks in each strand. There are suggestions as to where you might find the evidence to show that you have completed each task. Each strand also has Guidance, Examples and Templates (GET) you can use if you identify any gaps in your evidence.
Check what your group has in place and score using the following scale:
Getting Started Red
Moving Forward Amber
Completed Score Green
The results will help you to build your action plan.
EXAMPLE
For access to further information on the strands, please contact us.