New web resources from Volunteering England
Howard Lake | 6 June 2007 | News
Volunteering England has relaunched its website to coincide with this week’s Volunteers’ Week, offering new services to the country’s 22 million volunteers and their managers.
Volunteereing England’s The Good Practice Bank has now doubled in size, offering a wide range of information and advice for anyone involved in volunteering.
Additions to the Good Practice Bank include:
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* Sport volunteering
* Public sector volunteering
* Legal issues
* Good practice case studies
* Documents used by organisations, such as interview guides, induction checklists, and role descriptions.
Volunteer managers and Volunteer Development Agencies will also be able to upload their own examples of good practice to the site and link to other sites that offer useful resources from which the whole sector can learn.
The site went live on 1 June, the first day of the 23rd annual Volunteers’ Week, which is coordinated in England by VE. It aims to “recognise, reward and recruit” volunteers, and encourages the organisations and charities they work with to acknowledge publicly their efforts.
Jane Heath, assistant director of outreach services, said: “Volunteers’ Week is the perfect opportunity to launch the new-look website to the sector. We aim to inspire those looking to volunteer, and to arm volunteering professionals with the necessary tools to carry out their jobs as effectively as possible.”
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.