Resources for Volunteer Managers
Toolkits, Tips and Best Practices for Volunteer Managers
There are many useful resources available to help people who coordinate volunteers and to share with your volunteers, some of these key documents are below.
There is also a Trello board for volunteer managers and coordinators with many more documents available to download, which are stored and collated in a visually helpful way.
There is also a Trello board for volunteer managers and coordinators with many more documents available to download, which are stored and collated in a visually helpful way.
Documents to Download
The Volunteering Handbook
A handy booklet to use during the induction of a volunteer. It covers all the relevant best practice elements in the Leeds Volunteering Kitemark. Freely available for any organisation in Leeds to use with their volunteers.
Recruiting Volunteers with Criminal Convictions Toolkit
This toolkit is designed as a first step for organisations to ensure their volunteering programme is accessible to the prison community. It provides guidelines about what to consider when assessing potential volunteers with criminal convictions so that recruitment and support processes can be made inclusive and safe for staff, volunteers and service users.
Volunteers and Mental Health
Key points from the Volunteer Managers Network discussion about volunteers and mental health.
Top Tips: Volunteering from Home
How to approach confidentiality and data protection.
Top Tips: Writing Volunteers Roles
What to consider and include when you’re looking to recruit a volunteer role.
Top Tips: How to create a culture of diversity and inclusion within you volunteering programme
Ways to grow and diversify your volunteer pool.
Top Tips: What your Volunteers need to be happy
A reminder of why people volunteer in the first place and how you can keep volunteers happy.
Top Tips: What Your Volunteers Need to Become Your Next Best Employee
Volunteering for employability skills.
Top Tips: How to Conduct a Volunteer Engagement Survey
Top Tips: Managing Volunteers and the Cost of Living Crisis
Top Tips: Including Volunteers With a Physical Disability
Volunteer Induction Videos
A set of videos that can be used during the induction process of your volunteers.
Please be aware that although the videos can be used to helped train volunteers, it is important to note that they are not comprehensive and more detailed information may need to be used in addition to the volunteer inductions videos to make them relevant to the role.
We have produced a volunteer induction document corresponding to each video for you and your volunteer to date and sign as they go through the videos.
Please be aware that although the videos can be used to helped train volunteers, it is important to note that they are not comprehensive and more detailed information may need to be used in addition to the volunteer inductions videos to make them relevant to the role.
We have produced a volunteer induction document corresponding to each video for you and your volunteer to date and sign as they go through the videos.