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Keeping Volunteers Safe: Restarting your Volunteer Programme

3. Reopening your volunteer programme

3.8. Summary

So far the course has asked you to consider

  • Working with and listening to volunteers as you explore why your group or organisation is resuming or scaling up its volunteer programme
  • Working with others in your group or organisation to assess the benefits of involving volunteers will be, for both the individual and the group or organisation

It has suggested that returning to volunteering shares the same values and approach set out in the CVSL VS course Involving Volunteers. In particular, the idea of restarting as akin to going through the phases of “Being Ready” allowing volunteers to assess whether it is “Right for me” and listening to volunteers and responding to their needs.

 

Activity 3

Please take some time to consider the following points and if appropriate update your Action Plan (Word 2007 document16.5 KB) . Consider the following questions and sketch out a response

You may have already spoken to volunteers, or even noted down that some are not ready to return, perhaps you have thought about doing a mini-induction. You might even be wondering that goes into that indication, before you go to the next section.

  1. In your Action Plan, note three actions that you want to take from the learning in this section. Prioritise these and write the most important one into your final action plan.
  2. You might have thought of something that wasn’t significant enough to write in your action plan, which you could do quickly and would improve the experience for volunteers.
  3. Just do it now.

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