Keeping Volunteers Safe: Restarting your Volunteer Programme
This course is about the essential things you need to consider to ensure a positive experience for individuals returning to engage in volunteering following suspension of programmes in response to Covid-19. The overall aim is to help you prepare your volunteers, organisation and colleagues to return to supporting volunteer involvement in your work. It was developed with input from volunteers, volunteer-involving groups and organisations, volunteer practitioners and trainers. This input has given us the volunteers’ perspective and the volunteers’ ‘voice’ that we hope you will find helpful throughout the course.
1. Introduction
1.6. Introducing the Case Studies
Throughout the course you will see quotes from groups, organisations and volunteers, all talking about their experiences of improving volunteering practice. These reflections will help to support your critical reflection. Some we mention once, and they are introduced in the text. Others we return to throughout the course, and these are detailed below.
Volunteer Scotland Action Learning Group is a peer support network for volunteer practitioners
Sustrans Scotland provides advice, support and funding that makes it easier for people to walk and cycle for everyday journeys.
Royal Blind Scotland’s largest vision impairment group or organisation. Our vision is to see a community in which blind and partially sighted people, including those who have other disabilities, are fully included and lead fulfilling lives
Kilmaurs Gala Day started in 1922, and the current Gala Committee and a group of local community members restarted the event in 2006, after a period of inactivity. They are a constituted group supported by the local community, businesses, Kilmaurs Primary School and East Ayrshire Council.