Do all charity CEOs actually realise they are volunteer managers? Dominic Pinkney explains the perhaps contradictory but also essential volunteer management role the CEO needs to carry out with the volunteer trustees who manage the CEO. For an effective high performing board of trustees the CEO needs to carry out good practice volunteer management.
Category Archives: Volunteer Management
London Vision for Volunteering
Since May last year I have led the ‘London Vision for Volunteering‘ programme and in March 2025 we launched the final report and its 36 recommendations. I am so proud of this work. Not just because I think it has produced some great recommendations that act as a blueprint for developing volunteering across the capital, …
Volunteer Managers’ Cafe
I am pleased to report on the success of a new innovation for 2020, a Volunteer Managers’ Café, that started before Covid-19 and has carried on through the crisis and is becoming more important during the recovery phase and beyond. At Volunteer Centre Camden we have a dedicated service to support best practice volunteer management …
Why do so many misunderstand DBS?
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 …
