SUPPORT FOR VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR GROUPS

TRAINING FOR VCS GROUPS

For training or VCS enquiries or to be added to our mailing list please contact harry@jscharnwood.org.uk

CourseDateTimeCost
Emergency First Aid Level 3Friday 17th March9.30am – 4.00pm£35.00
Emergency First Aid Level 3Friday 19th May9.30am – 4.00pm£40.00
Emergency First Aid Level 3Friday 13th October9.30am – 4.00pm£40.00
Emergency First Aid Level 3Friday 27th October9.30am – 4.00pm£40.00
Emergency First Aid Level 3Friday 24th November9.30am – 4.00pm£40.00
Health and Safety Awareness and Fire Safety Awareness-Friday 12th May9.30am – 2.30pm£35.00
Managing Volunteers TrainingTuesday 13th & Wednesday 14th June10.00am – 4.00pm£40.00
Confidentiality and BoundariesTuesday 5th September2.30pm – 4.00pm£5.00
Health and Safety ManagementFriday 20th October9.30am – 12.00pm£25.00

TALKS AT JOHN STORER HOUSE

We are planning to develop a programme of talks/presentations on ways to help and understand people experiencing specific issues in the community. For example, supporting people with Dementia, or people experiencing distress. The talks would be introductory and aimed at those working in public facing roles.

We need your help to devise this programme! We will be sending a survey to all VCS organisations to find out where you may need help supporting people.

VAL and VCS Support

Voluntary Action LeicesterShire has several useful pages regarding the setting up, developing and running of a VCS group.  The following links take you to the resources sections of the various guides which include templates you can use and adapt.

Advice and resources |
Free advice and resources for charities
(valonline.org.uk)

There are sections devoted to governance, involving and managing volunteers, equality & diversity, health & safety, data protection, financial management and complaints and all include templates.  We also have a section below devoted to involving volunteers in your organisation.

You will probably not need all of the VAL information, but it’s good to have a look.  If you think you’ve got a better way of doing things or a more useful template for something, let us know and we’ll endeavour to put it on this website.

INVOLVING VOLUNTEERS IN YOUR GROUP

Below there is information on policies and procedures for how best to include volunteers, and how to advertise your volunteer opportunities

VAL has plenty of advice for organisations wishing to involve volunteers in their group, including a basic guide:

Valonline

Also, in the introduction, there’s a good guide to creating an “Involving Volunteers Plan”. This would be particularly useful for smaller groups that do not necessarily need a full-blown policy:

Involving volunteers

The application and interview forms are also particularly useful:

Interview PDF
Application PDF

Likewise, NCVO has some good information to download free of charge, such as how to write a volunteer role description:

volunteers/recruiting/writing

Also, something you should be considering before you even begin to involve volunteers is the issue of safeguarding.  Some useful guidance here:

safeguarding-volunteers

If you have any questions about how to go about involving volunteers in your organisation, please email us at harry@jscharnwood.org.uk.  If you have tips or advice, on how to do it (or not) to share, contact us and we’ll share it with the wider VCS in Charnwood.

If you would like to include more volunteers in your organisation, then please speak with Carolyn Newman from VAL who runs a monthly drop-in at John Storer House. You can come and chat with her about advertising your organisation’s volunteer opportunities to potential volunteers.

The next drop-ins are on Friday 21st July or Friday 18th August from 10.30 am-12.30 pm in the John Storer House Café.

Alternatively, you can register and set up an account with VAL to advertise your organisation’s volunteer opportunities with them online. 

Recruit volunteers/Advertise volunteering opportunities.

JSC offers a two-day training course on Managing Volunteers. We also aim to develop this web page to advertise volunteer opportunities for other organisations in Charnwood. If you would like to advertise your opportunity in this way, please email harry@jscharnwood.org.uk

If you have any queries about how JSC can help support your VCS organisation, please email harry@jscharnwood.org.uk

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John Storer Charnwood is a registered charity no. 1087692 and a company limited by guarantee no. 4155933 Registered office as above John Storer House Foundation registered charity no. 521460

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encourages, supports and develops individuals, groups and organisations involved in community action

  • promotes new initiatives
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  • and runs a community centre and voluntary action centre.

John Storer Charnwood acts to develop a more just, inclusive and caring society in Charnwood.

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Wards End,
Loughborough,
Leicestershire,
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