The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, formerly Criminal Records Bureau (CRB), is widely used throughout the voluntary and community sector to involve volunteers but I never cease to be surprised at how often it is misused, either through misunderstanding or deliberately. At the Hammersmith & Fulham Volunteer Centre, we are an authorised umbrella DBS …
Author Archives: Dominic Pinkney
Participaction – The new name for volunteering
I have been in denial. No, I am not doing a bad joke about a river in Egypt, but referring to my coming around to the notion that the word ‘volunteer’ is not as cool and sexy as it used to be. The concept of giving time to help others is still very much cool, …
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Celebrating 10 years of Not-for-profit Social Enterprise Works4U!
I write with unashamed and enormous beaming pride to announce that award-winning not-for-profit social enterprise Works4U is celebrating its 10th birthday. This 100% self-sustaining internationally-recognised London enterprise has a social mission to help businesses to support the community through volunteering. In the past 10 years Works4U has organized for over 15,000 business volunteers to carry out almost …
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Who is the Dominic Pinkney person?
Well, Dominic Pinkney (that’s me, but I’m writing in the third person) is a voluntary sector CEO, with specific expertise on volunteering. He is the CEO of two amazing Volunteer Centres: Volunteer Centre Camden (VCC) Hammersmith & Fulham Volunteer Centre (HFVC) He is also the CEO of Works4U, a not-for-profit social enterprise whose social mission …
