Keeping Volunteers Safe: Restarting your Volunteer Programme

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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.


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3. Reopening your volunteer programme

3.6. Activity 2

Activity 2

Please take some time to consider the following points and if appropriate update your Action Plan. Consider the following questions and sketch out a response

  1. Have you asked your volunteers would they like to return?
  2. Have you shared your, group’s or group or organisation’s expectations of volunteers, so potential volunteers can make an informed choice about whether to get started
  3. Have you explored and fully understood what concerns volunteers may have about restarting their roles or adapting to changing roles
  4. Have you asked the question of who is ready to return to their role(s)

Feedback for this activity is on the next page. 

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