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"Greater London Volunteering's new website will be a great resource...to recruit and get the best from volunteers."..."I hope this website will enable more people to get involved." Phil Hope, Minister for the Third Sector
Aim high involving volunteers
Recruiting and managing your volunteers effectively can make a huge difference to your club or organisation. The links below give advice and guidance to ensure you and your volunteers are well-supported. It is well worth taking the time to read through the ones that are relevant to you.
- Recruiting volunteers
- What volunteering is and what it isn't
- Screening volunteers
- Health and safety for sports volunteers
- Retaining volunteers
- Saying thank you to volunteers
Inclusive volunteering
Supporting volunteers with particular needs creates an inclusive and enjoyable volunteering environment. The links below give specialist advice on how to respond to the different needs that you volunteers may have.
- Child protection
- Helping keep your child safe in sport leaflet
- Homelessness
- Mental health
- Learning disabilities
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
- Physical disabilities
- Older people
- Young people as volunteers
More resources to help improve your volunteering environment
- GoldStar good practice toolkit
- Scope's inclusive volunteering programme for disabled people (open for funding applications to 30th September 2008)
- Sport England's equality standard
- Turn your organisation into a volunteer magnet
- Training for over 16s to be sports officials in the run up to 2012
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