Volunteering

Will the Facebook factor find new volunteers?

As part of its remit to look at new ways of involving volunteers, the modernising volunteering workstream has been looking at social networking and volunteer champions.

In September the workstream ran a series of focus groups with members of the Association of Volunteer Managers (AVM) and gathered useful information which will be made available soon. They will also be working with the AVM to pilot a social networking section on their website at www.volunteermanagers.org.uk. If you’re a member of the AVM and want to get involved, please get in touch using the contact details below.

Lead partner Red Foundation also wants to hear from you if you’ve used a social network to recruit and support volunteers. Do you have experience of developing volunteer champion or ambassador type roles? And if you are an active user of Facebook for personal use, they want your views on how it may help you to work with volunteers. Share your experience and opinions in our online survey which runs until January at www.surveymonkey.com.

The survey will be complemented by focus groups and interviews. If you want to take part in a focus group or have a case study you would like to tell us about, then please get in touch by email nss@redfoundation.org or call us on 0845 299 7162 ext 2. We look forward to hearing from you.

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