Volunteers
More information:
About the Volunteer Centre Wakefield District
Involving Volunteers in Your Organisation (pdf document)
This guide will help your organisation identify what you need to consider when recruiting and managing volunteers. You can review this document to help you consider your organisation's policies and procedures.
Volunteering Opportunities in the Wakefield District booklet (pdf document)
Are you interested in volunteering? A booklet about volunteering opportunities across Wakefield District, produced by Wakefield District's Volunteer Centre.
Volunteer Management Portal (external website)
Volunteering England’s Volunteer Management Portal acts as a gateway to the world of volunteer management with links to over a thousand resources and information on support, training and development opportunities for people managing volunteers.
Free support to recruit and retain volunteers
Are you a voluntary and community group in Wakefield District? Do you need support to recruit and retain volunteers? Wakefield District’s Volunteer Centre offers a range of free services to groups and organisations.
Help to recruit and manage volunteers
Our Volunteer Centre Wakefield District works with a wide range of voluntary organisations, community groups and other not-for-profit organisations. Its aim is to help recruit and retain volunteers for these organisations. One of the best ways of doing this is to consider how to best work with volunteers. It has been proven by ensuring that volunteering good practice is in place, your chances of keeping your volunteers and helping them to make a positive contribution to your group are enhanced.
Join the Volunteer Managers Forum
Our Volunteer Centre Wakefield District also offers one-to-one help and is in the process of setting up a new Volunteer Managers Forum, where you can meet up and or contact other people who manage volunteers across the district. This forum was set up to encourage the sharing of volunteering good practice at grass routes level.
Promote your volunteering opportunities
Our Volunteer Centre helps voluntary and community groups to find volunteers by promoting their volunteering opportunities. We do this in a variety of ways. This includes promoting volunteering and volunteering opportunities at our Volunteer Centre, public events, meetings and in the wider community. We advertise volunteering opportunities via the www.do-it.org.uk website, which is the national database of UK volunteering opportunities.
Contact our Volunteer Centre to find out more about promoting your volunteering opportunities.
Email: volunteering@vawd.org.uk or telephone 01924 367418.
