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Volunteer Centre Fife
Training Packages & Support
www.volunteeringfife.org

Do you recognise any of the following scenarios:

  1. You are considering taking on volunteers for the first time and don't know where to start.
    • You or your members of staff are stretched to the limit?
    • Someone has decreed 'let there be volunteers!' in your organisation?
    • You want to know how to manage staff-volunteer relationships?
  2. You have never considered using volunteers as you don't have the time to train and support them.
    • Are you aware of the potential benefits of volunteers to your organisation?
    • Have you had 'bad' experiences with volunteers in the past or is it just fear of the unknown?
  3. You have volunteers helping your organisation already.
    • You need more of the right type of volunteers to deliver your service?
    • You find it difficult to retain volunteers?
    • Have you thought about taking on young people as volunteers?
  4. You have some new committee members.
    • Are the group operating as a team?
    • Are there tensions about their roles as committee as well as being volunteers?

If you fall into any of the above categories or have other issues to raise in relation to managing volunteers, Volunteer Centre Fife is here to help deliver training or adapt programmes of support to meet your needs.

Effective volunteer management is simple in theory, but subtle in operation!

Our programme for the coming year will include:

  • Planning for Volunteer Involvement
  • Enhancing Your Recruitment Strategies
  • Matching Volunteers to Roles and Tasks
  • Supporting Your Volunteers
  • Developing Your Own Training Programme
  • Health and Safety and Risk Assessment in Managing Volunteers
  • Motivating and Retaining Your Volunteers
  • Developing Volunteer Portfolios
  • Creating Positive Volunteer-Staff Relationships
  • Dealing with conflict

In addition we tailor training to meet the needs of the organisation.

This includes: Self Evaluation - increasing the effectiveness of our service; Preparing for Volunteering; Developing and Action Plan with Committees, Staff and Volunteers

Key features of a successful programme will include:

  • Job development
  • Interviewing
  • Selection
  • Supervision
  • Evaluation of performance
  • Recognition and reward

Further information about our courses is available in this programme or, alternatively why not check out our website above.

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