Practice Sharing Examples

Volunteers - training, development, support and retention 

• Equipping volunteers with the experience and qualifications to work with young people provides a ready-made pool of youth workers in which to recruit from (The Cardigan Centre - example).

• To maximise the potential of volunteer involvement, the skills of volunteers need harnessing, requiring investment and commitment (The SEND Project - example).

• The key to delivering quality services to families is to provide a high standard of training and support to attract, develop and motivate volunteers (Home-Start Hounslow - example).

• Providing volunteers with an accredited training programme and on-going support (Hope UK - example)
  
  
• Using arts based practice to train volunteers with additional needs, to work with children and young people in community-based arts projects (Studio 3 Arts - example).

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Supporting young volunteers

• Providing a peer-led induction programme and awards system has helped to retain 100 young volunteers to deliver training and activities to challenge racism and prevent violence in their community (Aik Saath - Together As One - example).