The Role of the Hampshire Volunteer Centres (VCs)

An Overview

Strategic Development

OfVolunteering

Policy Response

And Campaigning

DevelopingVolunteeringOpportunities

Good PracticeDevelopment

Marketing

Brokerage

The 6 Core Functions of a

VC

Volunteer Brokerage

Registrations via telephone, email, pre booked interview, drop in

and increasingly

via www.do-it.org.uk

Volunteer registers Matched to suitable opportunities

Volunteer selects opportunity and applies to organisation

Volunteer starts at Organisation

Organisation registers opportunities with VC

VC’s at the Heart of

LocalCommunities

Good Practice Development and Training

• Volunteer Managers’ Forums

• Workshops

• Training Courses

• Visits to organisations

• Common approach to policies, procedures and agreements

Collaborative working

• Between 11 Volunteer Centres in Hampshire

• Third Sector organisations

• V inspired (previously Millennium Volunteers)

• Job Centre Plus

• Statutory agencies

• Forums

• The public and private sectors

* based on figures supplied by 10 VCs

Volunteer Centres Vital Statistics*1 June 2008 – 30 May 2009

Total number of organisations registered 3081

Total number of opportunities on offer 5768

Volunteers registered via www.do-it.org.uk 3911

Volunteers offered personal interviews 1241

Volunteer phone/email registrations 514

Total volunteer registrations 5767

Training courses organised and delivered 20

Supported volunteer schemes 3

And finally … …

• We increasingly work with ‘hard to place’ individuals, the time spent may not result in them actually going on to volunteer right now. However, the very act of coming in to see us will be of benefit in the general confidence building/recovery process for that individual.

• If we are only judged by ‘successful outcome and placements’, those scenarios do not count.  The person may go on to volunteer at a later date but the Volunteer Centre may not be kept updated with this information.

Supporting difficult to place volunteers can be a

complex business involving many agencies

Voluntary Organisations

Job Centre Plus

Medical Professional

Volunteer PlusSupport Worker

Volunteer Centres

Thank you for listening

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