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About Our Services For Organisations

If your organisation already works, or is thinking about working with volunteers, then VCC aims to help and support you with recruiting and managing your volunteers. We are set up to deal with basic queries like 'where can we get volunteers from', right through to providing answers to some of the more complex legal questions about volunteers and the law. We aim to provide support to the smallest organisations run only by volunteers, as well as meeting the needs of the larger volunteer involving organisations, in and around Camden. We offer a range of services for organisations - whatever your needs - we can help...get in touch!

Promoting your volunteer opportunities

We are set up to refer potential volunteers to your organisation by issuing them with information about your volunteer opportunities which you have provided us with.
We operate a number of services for volunteer enquirers including:

- one-to-one pre-booked appointments

- appointments for people with extra support needs.

- drop-in sessions

- outreach sessions in local venues and at other high profile events.

- We can promote your opportunities on our own website and through the national volunteering database, 'www.do-it.org.uk'. We are also the local referral point for potential volunteers from the BBC's Timebank campaign.

Training

We offer regular training programmes aimed at helping you work with volunteers. Currently these take the form of Centre-based courses for anyone who has responsibility for working with volunteers. . If you have specific issues that you would like us to consider covering as part of our training programme, please e-mail info@camdenvb.org.uk

For details of our current training programs, please click here.


Support Sessions

Whether based at the Centre or at your own premises, we can at your convenience arrange a meeting to discuss your specific needs relating to your work with volunteers. This might range from how to go about starting a volunteer programme to looking at ways of re-motivating long-term volunteers who have become bored with their role. We will also produce a written summary of the meeting and are available for follow-up sessions if required.

This service is open to member organisations only. Start-up support sessions are available to any organisation planning to introduce volunteers into their work.

To request a support session, simply e-mail
info@camdenvb.org.uk


Volunteer Coordinators Forum The Camden Volunteer Coordinators' Forum is open to all volunteer-involving organisations that are members of Volunteer Centre Camden (VCC).

If you are a Volunteer Coordinato (or just happen to have managing volunteers tagged onto your job description!) this is your chance to:

- meet with other people working in Camden facing similar challenges/issues

- get up to date with latest volunteering developments

- focus on specific volunteering issues through regular 'themed' Forums

- find out more about VCC's services and how you can access them

- For more information please e-mail
info@camdenvb.org.uk For details of these and future forums, please click here.


Members' Chat Room

Talk live on line to Centre staff and other Volunteer Coordinators. Interactive chat on the wonderful world of volunteering! Please note the room is open to member organisations only at specified times. If you are a member and wish to chat now, click here.


Volunteer Co-ordinators Message Board

Click here to exchange news and views with other Volunteer Co-ordinators.


Equalities Support Volunteer Centre Camden believes that every individual has the right to volunteer, however acknowledges that many people do not have equal access to volunteering opportunities. Please contact the Centre if you would like advice about how to make your volunteer opportunities accessible to people with different needs. Click here for information about the Centre's Equalities Support Services


Resources and Publications

We stock a range of resources and publications to assist organisations working with volunteers

Fact Sheets
We also offer a range of FREE 'Essential Guides' which give a brief overview on a variety of volunteer related topics.

Library
We have a limited number of books that can be loaned to member organisations free of charge. Please contact the Centre for details.

Training packs
You can buy packs produced for all our training courses. Please contact the Centre for details.