Recruitment

Overview

• The Recruitment Guide - VE article
  

Articles

• Accepting Volunteers from Overseas - VE Information Sheet
• Screening and CRB Checks - VE Information Sheet
• Volunteering and State Benefits - VE Information Sheet
• Who Is Allowed to Volunteer? - VE Information Sheet
• Creating a Fair and Welcoming Application Process - VE article
• Writing an Advert for Volunteers - VE article
• Volunteer Interviews - VE article
• Volunteer Inductions - VE article
• Board To Tears? - Volunteering magazine
• An Image Problem - Volunteering magazine
• Doing It Via the Web - Volunteering magazine
• Looking Beyond the Homeless Label - Volunteering magazine
• Method In Madness - Volunteering magazine
• Follow The Guides - Volunteering magazine
• Open All Hours - Scouting magazine online
• Volunteer Recruitment, Management and Support in Poole - IVR report

Examples

• Template Volunteer registration form (MS Word)
• Example Volunteer Application Form - George House Trust (PDF)
• Example Volunteer Recruitment Leaflet - York CAB(PDF)
• Example Monitoring Form - Cambridge CAB(PDF)
• Example Initial Letter to Volunteers - Terrence Higgins Trust (PDF)
• Example Recruitment Process Flowchart - Warrington Borough Council(PDF)
• Example Interviewing Guide - Warrington Borough Council(PDF)

Links

List of local volunteer centres:
www.volunteering.org.uk/finder

Do-it, the online database of volunteer opportunities
www.do-it.org.uk

Timebank - online portal for would be volunteers to pledge time.
www.timebank.org.uk

The Running Sport website, created by Sport England, offers downloadable resources for volunteer managers and volunteers, including a 'quick guide' to recruiting and retaining volunteers.
http://www.runningsports.org/

Publications

Free publications

• Volunteering for Everyone - A guide for organisations who want to include and recruit volunteers who have a learning disability - Volunteering England and Mencap (PDF)
• Involving Ex-offenders in Volunteering - Volunteering England and Nacro (PDF)
• Working with Volunteers: A management guide for refugee community organisations - Volunteering England and The Evelyn Oldfield Unit (PDF)
• From Barriers to Bridges - Volunteering England (MS Word)

Priced Publications

• Mini Guides: Selecting Volunteers - Volunteering England
• Route To Opportunity guides - Volunteering England
• You Cannot Be Serious! A guide to involving volunteers with mental health problems - Volunteering England
• The A-Z of Volunteering and Asylum - Volunteering England
• Involving Older Volunteers: A good practice guide - IVR
• Recruiting Volunteers: Attracting the people you need - Directory of Social Change
• The Volunteer Recruitment Book - Energize Inc
  

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 (phone and textphone)