From AVM's Volunteer Management Wiki
|
Welcome to a Volunteer Management wiki
the free handbook for volunteer managers that anyone can edit (an AVM project)
|
Browse the wiki
How to get more involved
|
| You can join our community and get involved. You can donate your writing on volunteer management issues to the wiki and help build a free and open resource. There are loads of ways you can add content to this wiki, you can edit existing articles or create new pages in seconds. Or if you prefer, you can email us your writing you'd like to donate and we'll add it for you: wiki@volunteermanagers.org.uk.
Just take a look around and leave your comments (hit the article's discussion tab). Have a browse through all the articles on the wiki so far.
|
|
|
|
We need your help
|
| At this point, just about every article needs more work! But here we focus on the articles we'd like to prioritise in need of work. We'd like to have a base of articles covering issues in good practice to kick off with. In particular once you've had a read, please help edit and add to the following:
|
In the diary this month
|
These events are all taken from the full wiki's calendar. Event details are republished here for guidance only- for the latest info please verify with the event organiser. Please add more events if you know of any and let us know of any inaccuracies!
September 2008
- 4th-5th September: All You Need To Know About Mental Health & Volunteering - AM Training - London - from £270.25
- 9th September: (2pm - 5.45pm) New Voluntary Sector Researchers' Session - University of Warwick, UK
- 10th-11th September: Volunteer Management: It’s All About Motivation - AM Training - London - from £270.25
- 17th-18th September: The Volunteer Manager's Guide to Project Management - AM Training - London - from £270.25
- 18th September: Volunteer Recruitment Revisited - Rick Lynch - London - £100 per person (all inclusive) IAVM
- 18th September: Mentor volunteer training for programme co-ordinators - BVSC, 138 Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 6DR
- 19th September: Monitoring and Evaluation of Volunteer Activity - Rick Lynch - London - £100 per person (all inclusive) IAVM
- 25th September: Effective Risk Management - London NCVO, Regents Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London, N1 9RL
- 30th September: Befriender Volunteer Training for Programme Co-ordinators - BVSC, 138 Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 6DR
|
Points of view
|
| It would be great to have your view on the Future of Training Volunteer Managers. The groundwork for this article has been written by AVM members. We hope this forms the basis of a discussion between volunteer managers and Government on how to help shape the future of training for volunteer managers (in particular in England).
If you'd like to edit or add to this article - just hit the edit button at the top - but please leave your name in the discussion page if you're not logged in. Doing so helps the discussion. It'd also be great if you could add comments about any major changes/additions/edits you make in the discussion page.
Your shout
|
| People are continually asking for the views of volunteers and those who work in volunteer management. It can though, be tricky to keep track of all of them and know how you can participate most effectively.
We bring together here current consultations and surveys on volunteering. We let you know which are open and which are closed (and published the results).
|
|
|
In the news
|
| New guidelines on volunteer management
The UK Workforce Hub has published a new set of standards for the management of volunteers. More here on the standards.
Volunteering in Criminal Justice System consultation
Baroness Neuberger, the Government's independent volunteering champion, is asking third sector and statutory organisations for their views on volunteering in the criminal justice system.
DOH Volunteering Consultation
The Department of Health has published for consultation its volunteering strategy in health and social care. The consultation closes on 30 September. AVM will be responding to the consultation in due course. We've extracted the section relevant to volunteer management here in our article on volunteering and health and social care.
New guidance on CRB checks
We're currently working on a revised version of the article on CRB checks. We really welcome and encourage edits and input on this - or any discussion points can be added to the article's discussion page of CRB checks on the wiki.
Morgan Inquiry on young adult volunteering published
The Morgan Inquiry has just published its report which looks at "the real reasons for more young people to volunteer, the barriers that prevent young people from doing so - and produced a series of practical recommendations for change".
Volunteer drivers
Susan Ellis' Energize! article on how volunteer managers might adapt to rising fuel prices stimulated debate on UKVPMs. We've tried to incorporate some of the points made in our article on volunteer expenses.
Bob Russell (Shadow Minister, Defence; Colchester, Liberal Democrat) raised mileage expenses in Parliament (28-04-2008)
"To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will increase the level of mileage for which tax-free expenses may be paid to volunteer drivers of voluntary and charitable organisations."
Angela Eagle (Parliamentary Secretary, HM Treasury; Wallasey, Labour) responded:
"I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given to the hon. Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew) on 12 November 2007, Official Report, column 22W. HMRC allows volunteers to use the approved mileage allowance payment (AMAP) rate for convenience, but it is not mandatory and volunteer drivers can claim tax relief for the full cost of motoring by completing a return, if they wish to do so."
|
Articles of interest
|
| Here we point to articles on the wiki that we've recently created because they've featured in recent discussions in the volunteer management community. We try to gather all the info and summarise the debate for future reference.
|
|
Volunteer Manager's Handbook
Volunteers help with a face painting activity PHOTO: RSPB
The idea of this wiki is to create a handbook for anyone who supports volunteers in their project or organisation. The focus is on issues from a UK perspective. It would be great to be able to pull together information from across many different areas in volunteer management and generate greater collaboration between volunteer managers.
There is today a vibrant discussion that takes across the sector in many different places. It's hoped that this wiki can help collate this knowledge and let the thriving discussion continue a pace.
The information in this wiki is in the public domain.
What will the writing be used for?
We hope this information will be useful for anyone who works supporting volunteers. As these articles mature and develop, we hope they will:
- Help influence and inform anyone interested in volunteer management across the UK
- Be periodically quality reviewed and published as a special new resource for volunteer managers
- Build and boost content on Wikipedia on the topic of volunteer management
See here for more information on why we're setting up this wiki
Getting started and finding out what's going on
There are a number of ways in which you can find out what's currently happening on this wiki and what needs work :-)
Suggested articles- You can suggest an article or put your name down for one
Article stubs - Another way to get involved is to leap in and tackle an article stub (in other words, one which has been started but needs a lot of love and attention to get right)
Recent changes - You can also check what recent changes have been made across the wiki by clicking on 'recent changes' in the lefthand box.
List all articles - Alternatively you can also get a sense of how the wiki is developing by looking at all the articles on the wiki here.
Categories - You may be interested to see what has been written currently in different categories of the wiki such as publications, good practice, volunteer manager's resources, etc.
How can you get involved?
There are many different ways in which you can help to develop this wiki guide to volunteer management.
- First thing to do is to visit our community portal to give you a sense of what is going on on this wiki
- Ask people or organisations you know who have written about volunteer management to donate their writings to the wiki.
- You can help to write an article on a topic of your choosing or on a topic that has already been suggested by the community You can add content by either adding it directly to the wiki or by emailing it to us at: wiki@volunteermanagers.org.uk
- You could help as a wiki editor and put together articles and information on the wiki
- You could help to develop the support documentation on the wiki. We need information that explains how to create articles and make changes so that more people can get involved
- Do you have photos or other media that we can use in the handbook? Just register on this website (top right) and upload them yourself or email them to us at: wiki@volunteermanagers.org.uk
External links
