Recruiting, Selecting and Inducting Volunteers

Recruiting, Selecting and Inducting Volunteers

Before involving volunteers, it is worth spending some time considering how they can be best included within your organisation.

Recruiting, Selecting and Inducting Volunteers
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
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
Posting Volunteering Opportunities Bilingually

Posting Volunteering Opportunities Bilingually

Guidance for organisations on posting volunteering opportunities in Welsh and in English.

Posting Volunteering Opportunities Bilingually
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
Model Volunteering Policy – a template

Model Volunteering Policy – a template

This model format is intended for guidance purposes and should be adapted to suit your organisation and specific processes. 

Model Volunteering Policy – a template
Model Volunteer Agreement

Model Volunteer Agreement

These sample volunteer agreements are a starting point to help you draft one that suits your organisation. Feel free to adapt them to suit your needs.

Model Volunteer Agreement
Model Supervision Guidelines

Model Supervision Guidelines

This example is intended for guidance purposes and should be adapted to suit your particular organisation.

Model Supervision Guidelines
Model Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy

Model Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy

This is a template document, please amend and use as appropriate, we suggest that you set up with your own logo and branding.

Model Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy
Model Complaints Policy

Model Complaints Policy

This example is intended for guidance purposes and should be adapted to suit your particular organisation.

Model Complaints Policy
Managing Volunteer Exits

Managing Volunteer Exits

This information sheet talks through approaches to managing volunteer exits in a sensitive, clear and respectful manner.

Managing Volunteer Exits