Recruitment

Overview

• The Recruitment Guide - VE article
  

Articles

Rules and laws affecting volunteer recruitment

• Accepting Volunteers from Overseas - VE Information Sheet
• Volunteering and State Benefits - VE Information Sheet
• Who Is Allowed to Volunteer? - VE Information Sheet

Criminal Record Bureau Disclosure checks and screening

• An Introduction to CRB Disclosure checks - VE Information Sheet
• When To Get A CRB Disclosure Check - VE Information Sheet
• Screening Volunteers - VE Information Sheet
• Independent Safeguarding Authority - VE Information Briefing
• Recruiting Ex-offenders - VE Information Sheet

Other articles about recruitment

• 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

• Find contact details for 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

• Visit the equal opportunities and diversity themes of the Good Practice Bank to find guides on recruiting volunteers from specific backgrounds or communities

Priced Publications

• Mini Guides: Selecting Volunteers - Volunteering England
• Route To Opportunity guides - Volunteering England
• 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 (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).