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Modernising volunteering workstream

Led by Volunteering England

Modernising volunteering to overcome barriers, maximise opportunities and explore new forms of involvement.

 
Workstream partnership
Lead agency: Volunteering England

Partners: v, The Network of National Volunteer Involving Agencies (NNVIA), Red Foundation, The Nationwide Foundation

 
Key aims for 2008-2011
  • to equip support providers to help volunteer-involving organisations to involve, engage and deploy a greater diversity of volunteers
  • to demonstrate the value of volunteering and develop support for it
  • to draw new skills into the sector through employer-supported volunteering
  • to develop new ways of working that are sustainable or which can be mainstreamed into core activities, particularly through the development of volunteer-led initiatives.
 
Benefits for support providers
  • increased number of people volunteering
  • improved capacity of volunteer managers
  • improved volunteering infrastructure
  • new ways of brokering employer-supported volunteering
  • more effective use of information and communications technology.
 
Key opportunities
  1. removing barriers to volunteering particularly amongst:
  2. people with disabilities
  3. refugees and asylum seekers
  4. ex-offenders
  5. black and minority ethnic communities
  6. meeting the needs of a changing population – recognising differing motivations for volunteering and embracing new technology
  7. building capacity in the expanding voluntary sector by overcoming lack of professional skills and poor access to free professional services
  8. meeting greater demands on volunteer-involving organisations by volunteers
  9. helping faith communities to overcome working in isolation
  10. overcoming the lack of strategic alliances and partnerships, and failure of local support providers to connect and communicate with volunteers.