Good Practice Bank

The vinvolved Central London team's Good Practice Bank has been designed to signpost organisations to existing good practice guidance on different aspects of volunteer management. We have arranged the Good Practice Bank into core themes where you can find information sheets, example policies, articles and links to external websites.

Volunteer Policies and Agreements

Volunteer Policies and Agreements provides an article on how to write a policy and example policies and forms to help you get started.

Creating Volunteering Roles

Creating Volunteering Roles provides presentations and articles to inspire you to make your role as appealing to young volunteers as possible.

Recruitment, Induction and Training

Recruitment, Induction and Training provides articles about whether you are ready to start recruiting and innovative ways to do this. It also has information on how to conduct an introduction and an example induction checklist.

Rewarding, Recognising and Retaining Volunteers

Rewarding, Recognising and Retaining Volunteers provides links to awards that are available for young people and articles offering advice on how to retain volunteers.

Social Media

Social Media provides information on how you can engage young people through various forms of social media and how you can actively involve young people in a social media group.

Youth Action

Youth Action provides information on what youth action is and how to create a youth action team.

Diversity

Diversity provides information on barriers to volunteering, who is allowed to volunteer and how to involve marginalised groups.

Support and Supervision

Support and Supervision provides articles on supporting volunteers and an example supervision form.

Dealing with Problems

Dealing with Problems provides an article on how to deal with difficulties that may arise.

Law, Safeguarding and CRBs

Law, Safeguarding and CRBs provides a presentation on volunteering law, information on volunteer expenses and Safeguarding.

Health and Safety and Insurance

Health and Safety and Insurance provides information on Health and Safety policies, relevant insurance policies and a sample risk assessment.

Standards

Standards provides information on how organisations can gain a quality standard.

Fundraising

Fundraising provides information on fundraisings from Charity Trusts.

Volunteer Policies and Agreements

GET IT RIGHT FROM THE START: a guide to Writing Volunteer Policies (Volunteering England)

Example VOLUNTEER POLICIES AND AGREEMENTS (Volunteering England)

Example CHILD PROTECTION POLICY (Volunteering England)

Example PARENTAL CONSENT FORM (vTeam Central London)

Creating Volunteering Role

Presentation CREATE...RECRUIT...INVOLVE YOUNG PEOPLE (Youth Net)

Hand out CREATE...RECRUIT...INVOLVE YOUNG PEOPLE (Youth Net)

CREATIVE VOLUNTEER ROLES (Energ!se)

CREATING VOLUNTEER ROLES (Volunteer Centre Camden)

CREATING YOUTH FOCUSED OPPORTUNITIES a presentation (vinvolved Central London)

TOP TIPS FOR CREATING YOUTH FOCUSED OPPORTUNITIES (vinvolved Central London)

CREATING FULL TIME INTERNSHIPS (vinvolved Central London)

Recruitment, Induction and Training

FINDING AND KEEPING YOUNG VOLUNTEERS (JLJ Associates)

ARE YOU READY TO RECRUIT SOME VOLUNTEERS (JLJ Associates)

FINDING NEW VOLUNTEERS (Running Sport)

RECUITING YOUTH VOLUNTEERS (Our Community)

SUCCESSFUL RECRUITMENT barriers to volunteering (Energ!se)

VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION (Tutors of Literacy in the Commonwealth)

HOW TO INVOLVE YOUNG VOLUNTEERS BY YOUNG VOLUNTEERS (vinvolved Central London)

INDUCTION AND TRAINING FOR VOLUNTEERS (Volunteering England)

EXAMPLE INDUCTION CHECKLIST (Volunteering England)

RECRUITING AND RETAINING YOUNG VOLUNTEERS TOOLKIT (vinvolved Central London)

Rewarding, Recognising and Retaining Volunteers

A presentation about our YOUTH LED REWARD AND CELEBRATION EVENT (vinvolved Central London)

Brief outline on VAWARDS and VINSPIRED NATIONAL AWARDS (Ruth Habershon, vinvolved Central London)

VAWARDS (vInspired)

Presentation on VOLUNTEERING QUALIFICATIONS offered by ASDAN (Tim Leaman, ASDAN)

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERING QUALIFICATION (ASDAN)

SHORT COURSES - COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND VOLUNTEERING (ASDAN)

Presentation on YOUNG ACHIEVERS AWARD (Jen Lowthrop, Young Achievers Award)

YOUNG ACHIEVERS AWARDS

TRAIN TO GAIN (Learning and Skills Council

Brief outline of YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS (Stella Baynes, UK Youth)
YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS information pack

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S AWARD

THE QUEEN'S AWARD

KEEPING VOLUNTEERS (Fruitful Consulting)

KEEPING VOLUNTEERS WITH YOU (JLJ Associates)

VOLUNTEER RECOGNITION (Energ!se)

Social Media

USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO ENGAGE YOUNG PEOPLE presentation (Sue Fidler, Sue Fidler ltd.)

ENGAGING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA: SOCIAL MEDIA EXPLAINED a guide to social media and how you can actively involve young people in your social media activities (DCSF)

ENGAGING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA: VIDEO PRODUCTION EXPLAINED how you can develop creative videos to promote your activities (DCSF)

Youth Action

YOUTH LED AND YOUTH PARTICIPATION PROJECTS a presentation looking at what youth led and youth participation activities are and how to set up a youth action team (vinvolved Central London)

THE NINE PRINCIPLES OF YOUTH ACTION (Youth Action Network)