Promoting Welsh language through volunteering

Promoting Welsh language through volunteering

Wales is a bilingual country and has a strong ambition to increase the use of the Welsh language.

Promoting Welsh language through volunteering
Welcoming volunteers with experience of mental ill health

Welcoming volunteers with experience of mental ill health

This information sheet is designed to help your organisation recognise the value of welcoming volunteers with experience of mental ill health and offer practical advice on how to create inclusive and welcoming environments.

Welcoming volunteers with experience of mental ill health
Creating a Volunteering Policy

Creating a Volunteering Policy

This information page is for organisations that have a clear understanding of how, why, and where they involve volunteers and have planned adequate resourcing.

Creating a Volunteering Policy
Developing your Volunteering Strategy

Developing your Volunteering Strategy

This information page is designed to take you through a series of questions and considerations to enable you to construct a Volunteering Strategy for your organisation.

Developing your Volunteering Strategy
Involving Young People as Volunteers

Involving Young People as Volunteers

This information sheet is designed to help your organisation recognise the value of engaging young people (aged 14–25) as volunteers and offer practical advice on how to create an inclusive, youth-friendly environment.

Involving Young People as Volunteers
Thinking About Volunteering

Thinking About Volunteering

Volunteering can be an amazing experience. Use your skills and gain new ones as you help improve your local community through volunteering.

Thinking About Volunteering
Powys Teaching Health Board’s Health and Care Academy – Supporting Volunteers and Carers

Powys Teaching Health Board’s Health and Care Academy – Supporting Volunteers and Carers

This project was funded by Welsh Government through WCVA’s Volunteering Wales Strategic Grant, to build on work undertaken in 2021 to produce the Future of Volunteering in Powys report.

Powys Teaching Health Board’s Health and Care Academy – Supporting Volunteers and Carers
MS Society – Neuro Voice project evaluation and findings

MS Society – Neuro Voice project evaluation and findings

Funded through the Volunteering Wales strategic grant, Neuro Voice was a pilot project that ran across Wales in 2021-2022, with a strategic and sustainable volunteer-led infrastructure aimed at amplifying the voices of people with neurological conditions (pwNC).

MS Society – Neuro Voice project evaluation and findings
Monmouthshire County Council - Be Community Plus project evaluation and findings

Monmouthshire County Council - Be Community Plus project evaluation and findings

Be Community Plus was hosted in partnership between Monmouthshire County Council and GAVO, which provided face to face training for community groups and leaders and identified the need to support lead volunteers, and the role that community groups play in creating opportunities for early intervention and wellbeing.

Monmouthshire County Council - Be Community Plus project evaluation and findings
Supporting Volunteers with Lived Experience - Best Practice Guide to Inclusion

Supporting Volunteers with Lived Experience - Best Practice Guide to Inclusion

St Giles Trust has created a Best Practice Guide to Inclusion to support volunteers with Lived Experience as part of a project funded by Volunteering…

Supporting Volunteers with Lived Experience - Best Practice Guide to Inclusion
Innovate Trust’s Insight Investigators Evaluation

Innovate Trust’s Insight Investigators Evaluation

Insight Investigators is an Innovate Trust project funded by the WCVA’s Volunteering Wales Strategic Grant Fund. The aim of the project was to identify how…

Innovate Trust’s Insight Investigators Evaluation
Caru Eryri Executive Summary

Caru Eryri Executive Summary

There’s a lot to learn from recipients of the Volunteering Wales Strategic Grant Scheme who have been leading pioneering projects that look long-term at volunteering…

Caru Eryri Executive Summary