Legal Issues and Volunteering
This Core Theme of the Good Practice Bank should help you to find information about laws or rules which relate to volunteer involvement. While Volunteering England's Information Service have made every effort to ensure that any resources were correct at the time of publication, please note that these documents are only intended as a summary of relevant issues. Legal advice should still always be sought where appropriate.
Overview
Articles
(Please visit other themes of the Good Practice Bank to find Information Sheets about rules on state benefits, health and safety, reimbursing volunteer expenses etc.)
Examples
Alternatively, you can find example documents related to legal issues in other areas of the Good Practice Bank. Please choose a core theme to find examples related to that topic.
Links
Data Protection and Retention of Records
Possible sources of legal information or help
Please note that Volunteering England is unable to endorse any sources of legal advice. The following organisations are listed below because they have experience of working with the voluntary sector. Some offer services for free and others charge for advice.
Other useful websites
Publications
Free publications
Priced publications
Share your experiences!
The Good Practice Bank is growing steadily as more information is added to it. An important feature of the Bank is allowing users to share their documents with other volunteering organisations. We are particularly interested in receiving example policies or documents that you are happy to share with others. If we use your contribution, you could win a book on volunteering from our regular prize draw.
- If your organisation has an example to contribute, please use our simple form to submit it.
- Or, please send us an email or telephone 0800 028 3304 (Monday-Friday, 10.30am-12.30pm and 2.00pm-4.00pm)
- We welcome calls through Typetalk/TextDirect. Please dial 18001 followed by 0800 028 3304 (opening hours as above).