The first volunteer infrastructure organisation to obtain the new national Lead Volunteering Organisation (LVO) is Community CVS in Blackburn with Darwen. Awarding body Works4U CEO Dominic Pinkney presented the LVO award to Volunteering Manager Kate Lee and her colleagues at Community CVS.
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The Story behind the Game-changing report on the Monetary Value of Trustees
So… I’ve written a report. But I didn’t mean to. What I set myself as a 15 minutes task ended up being a 58 page report (don’t worry, there are lots of images) and I have not dared to calculate how much of my spare time this took. I run two volunteer centre charities and …
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9 Expert Tips for Developing an Employee Volunteering Programme
Employee volunteering experts Works4U have produced a free guide for businesses to help them establish and develop successful impactful volunteering programmes within their organisation. Not-for-profit social enterprise Works4U was founded in 2009 and they have helped hundreds of businesses with their corporate volunteering programmes. If you are looking to develop your employee volunteering programme and …
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Just a few days left – WIN £200 for a charity or community group of your choice
There are only a few days left to win £200 for a charity or community group of your choice. As promoted by Smiley News, all you need to do is complete the very quick and easy anonymous survey about employee volunteering from not-for-profit social enterprise Works4U: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5R8ZBC3 Works4U is an employee volunteering specialist and the …
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2022-23 UK Employee Volunteering Survey
There is a big contrast in the significant level of employee volunteering activity in the UK compared to the small amount of data, analysis and research on this topic. It is actually quite surprising. Employee volunteering specialist, not-for-profit Works4U, is addressing this large gap by launching a dedicated employee volunteering survey that will provide, perhaps …
Lead Volunteering Organisation (LVO) Quality Standard is Live!
I am proud and pleased to say the brand new Quality Standard called Lead Volunteering Organisation (LVO) is now live! Designed by a volunteer infrastructure organisation for volunteer infrastructure organisations. To explain in other words, I have selfishly created a Quality Standard that I want for my volunteer infrastructure organisations and so it will probably …
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Under 3mins Pitch: Why being a Trustee is the best Volunteer role
In the video below, I outline in under 3 minutes why being a Trustee is the very best volunteer role there is. If you cannot bear looking at my face for that long, and I do not blame you, then you can read my blog article explaining similar arguments.
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 …
Covid-19 Volunteer Response: Boats Analogy
As I have been asked a few times, here is my boats analogy for explaining the volunteering response to Covid-19 in the UK. It helps explain the different speeds and approaches of the different participants in society and also how they have come together. Mutual Aid Groups – DinghiesMutual Aid Groups (MAGs) and similar were …
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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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Dominic Pinkney's World of Volunteering 