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‘Do something great today… VOLUNTEER’

‘Do something great today… VOLUNTEER’. Volunteer Centre Merton Services. Recruitment and Placement service Supported Volunteering for people with disabilities Support Services for Organisations or Groups to build their capacity to involve volunteers

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‘Do something great today… VOLUNTEER’

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  1. ‘Do something great today… VOLUNTEER’

  2. Volunteer Centre Merton Services Recruitment and Placement service Supported Volunteering for people with disabilities Support Services for Organisations or Groups to build their capacity to involve volunteers Strategic Development of Volunteering working with partners to promote volunteering and deliver shared targets New VCM Website providing direct access to volunteering opportunities for volunteers and an easily accessible information bank for organisations

  3. What is Volunteering? Volunteering is unpaid and entered into freely for the benefit of others and the environment People get involved through a process of community engagement It is not work experience, enforced or entered into in the expectation of reward There are costs as well as benefits associated with new community engagement initiatives to get more Merton residents involved as volunteers

  4. Current Volunteering Strategy Based on an independent analysis of the nature, extent and scope of volunteering in Merton, together with the benefits for individuals, organisations and the wider community. Informed by a 2007 workshop where organisations and public services involving volunteers examined the need for volunteers and barriers that prevented people volunteering.

  5. Study of Impact and Value of Volunteering in Merton In 2005 Merton Partnership commissioned an independent research study. It was undertaken by the Centre for the Study of Voluntary and Community Activity at Roehampton University. 800 volunteer-involving organisations or projects supporting public services and large numbers of residents active within their own community

  6. Impact of Volunteering in Merton 44,000 ‘formal’ volunteers undertaking regular structured volunteering involving commitment to an organisation, including delivering public services, supporting events and civic action An additional 54,000 Merton residents engaged in more ‘informal’ or ‘social’ volunteering related to their immediate community, faith or leisure interests, including community action and providing support to family or neighbours

  7. Benefits of Volunteering for the Community Providing additional community activities, adding value to public services and improvements to the physical environment Benefits for individual volunteers, including helping people into jobs Volunteers are our community leaders as trustees, community activist and through involvement in civic action Building social networks and actively promoting and enhancing community cohesion (inter-generational, cultural)

  8. Volunteering isn’t Free Organisations require sufficient in-house resources and information, guidance and advice on volunteer management to recruit, train and support more volunteers. The level of resources increases where volunteers have extra support needs. Recent research by Volunteering England identified an average expenditure per volunteer of £4.55 per hour. But the Merton Study found £5 in economic value was added for every £1 invested. Volunteers can help to achieve real savings in service delivery.

  9. Costs of Volunteering A volunteering programme should budget for: Volunteer recruitment/publicity Induction and training Expenses (travel, child care) Insurance and safeguarding measures - CRB checks Volunteer reward and recognition (formal and informal) Accommodation, equipment and volunteer related running costs Co-ordinating and managing.

  10. VCM Outreach Project Capacity builders funded project taking good practice support to new and emerging groups, faith groups and public sector managers Recognised that: Many organisations will recruit their own volunteers but all volunteers need support Expertise and knowledge available in your local Volunteer Centre. Project worked with: 75 volunteer managers or leaders at 26 new or emerging groups 11 volunteer managers or leaders at 7 faith groups 35 volunteer managers at 25 public sector services.

  11. What does your organisation need to support more volunteers? Please do take this opportunity to tell us: What support you need to involve more volunteers in the work of your organisation How you think VCM services can be improved and what works well Workshops and Talking Wall

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