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Employee Volunteering
Employee volunteering is designed to enable employees to partake in volunteering, this can be as part of a team or individually, in work or personal time. If you are an employee or an employer Click the above link to find our more.

Volunteer Qualifications
It is possible to gain useful qualifications whilst you are volunteering, this can be an aid to personal development or useful for a CV. Click the following links to find out more:

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VOLSTUDY

Investing in Volunteers is the new UK volunteer management quality standard for all organisations which involve volunteers in their work. The Standard enables organisations to comprehensively review their volunteer management and to publicly demonstrate their commitment to volunteering and will enable your organisation to make the best use of this valuable people resource.

Reasons for Getting Involved
• To improve the effectiveness of your work with volunteers in a structured way (and hence maintain or improve the service to your users and/or supporters).
• To compare your volunteer practices against a recognised standard.
• To increase support from people within the organisation for the volunteer programme.
• To encourage more people to volunteer - people will feel more encouraged to volunteer for an organisation that strives towards managing volunteers well.
• To sustain your existing volunteers’ motivation and enhance their experience of volunteering.
• To enhance your organisation’s reputation in the local community.
• To reassure funders that the organisation is professional and that their money is being well spent.
• To draw to the attention of the organisation’s decision makers the need for more effective volunteer management.
• To minimise any potential risks arising from the involvement of volunteers
• To achieve the Investing in Volunteers Standard which allows an organisation to publicly demonstrate its commitment to volunteering.

Investing in Volunteers is being managed by the four development agencies of the UK Volunteering Forum: Volunteering England, Volunteer Development Scotland, Volunteer Development Agency in Northern Ireland, and Wales Council for Voluntary Action.

For more information go to the Investing in Volunteers website: www.investinginvolunteers.org.uk

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www.volunteering.org.uk

www.investinginvolunteers.org.uk