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
1.7. How to use this course
The course is aimed at volunteer practitioners who are likely to be dealing with complex and competing demands on their attention and their time. It is not a plan or a map of how to restart a volunteer programme, instead, it directs your attention to resources that are likely to be important, shares critical questions and how other practitioners have responded to those questions. The course is a work in progress, use it to help you identify and work through the issues in your context, and do come back and revisit it as circumstances change.