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Welcome to a Volunteer Management wiki
the free handbook for volunteer managers that anyone can edit (an AVM project)


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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: info@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:

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.


In the news

Check out our news section for the latest volunteering news

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
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: info@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: info@volunteermanagers.org.uk

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