Voluntary Action-Leeds

For your organisation?

For you?
Have you spent time thinking about you recently? Are you achieving your goals? Volunteering could be the way forward...

Volunteering gives you the chance to:
learn new skills
undertake training
gain experience
use and improve skills
develop new interests
meet people
help and support people
be involved in something worthwhile
feel good about yourself
fulfil a particular need
contribute to your local community

What opportunities are there?
A wide variety of voluntary work is available with small community groups, local and national charities, health and social services and education.

Where?
You can volunteer to work with:
older people
children and youth
admin & computers
sport
disability groups
women's groups
the environment
arts and music
advice/helplines
and many more...

Voluntary Action-Leeds runs the Volunteer Centre at Leeds Central Library (2nd Floor) on The Headrow.

The Centre is open Thursday 12.00pm - 5.00pm on a drop-in basis.

For your organisation?

Does your organisation use volunteers? Do you have problems recruiting the right people?

If you already use volunteers, registering with Voluntary Action-Leeds can provide your organisation with another route to finding volunteers. If your organisation is new to using volunteers we can help you to establish your volunteering base.

Leeds Volunteer Centre

Leeds Volunteer Centre uses V-Base - the free matching and placing database to provide volunteers with the right volunteering opportunities. The information is input into V-Base and regularly uploaded to www.do-it.org.uk, the national volunteering website. By using V-Base and www.do-it.org.uk the information provided by you is seen by a wide range of potential volunteers.

Leeds Volunteering Workers Network

The Leeds Volunteering Workers Network exists to provide support, information and advice. We have bi-monthly meetings to discuss all aspects of managing and working with volunteers.

Good Practice fact sheets

We also provide a number of Good Practice fact sheets:

Developing a volunteer policy (18KB)
Recruiting volunteers (18KB)
Volunteers and insurance (22KB)
Volunteer agreements (13KB)
Should volunteers be involved in the organisation? (22KB)
Volunteers expenses (15KB)
Training volunteers (39KB)
Supporting volunteers (24KB)
Induction of volunteers (12KB)
Selecting volunteers (33KB)
Releasing volunteers (14KB)
Interviewing volunteers (29KB)

If you would like more information email or call on 0113 297 7920.