Volunteering and Sport Heidi Rothwell Regional Development Officer

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Volunteering and SportHeidi RothwellRegional
Development Officer

• Tuesday 19 July 2005

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Who are Volunteering England?

• Launched 1 April 2004
• New Volunteer Development Agency for England
• Merger of National Centre for Volunteering
  Volunteering Development England (NAVB) and the
  Consortium on Opportunities for Volunteering
• Understand volunteering to include formal
  activity undertaken through public, private and
  voluntary organisations as well as informal
  community participation

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What do we do?

• Undertake research, policy, campaigns and
  development activity
• Secure and support and England-wide network of
  high quality volunteer development agencies,
  promoting and enabling volunteering and community
  involvement
• Provide grants, support and advice to sustain and
  develop volunteering

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What do we offer?

• Range of services designed to assist anyone
  involved with volunteers
• Membership packages Topical publications
  Research Evaluation on volunteering schemes
  Development of innovation in volunteering (new
  vol opps to vol management) Campaigns Events
  to raise profile of volunteering Education,
  training accreditation for volunteer managers
  Practitioner networks Grantmaking to support
  volunteer projects Advice and info on policy and
  issues surrounding voluntering Accredited
  quality frameworks for volunteering management
  and local vdas
• Website www.volunteering.org.uk

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Regional work and my role

• One regional volunteering development officer
  like myself now based in each region of England
• Work involves
• Representing volunteering at regional level with
  organisations such as Sport England, COVER,
  GOEAST
• Strengthen links between volunteer centre network
  and other networks
• Locally supporting Volunteer Centres with
  quality accreditation, branding and VE link in
  region

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Change Up

• Framework setting out 10 year vision for building
  the capacity of frontline organisations and
  putting in place the infrastructure they need.
• Framework result of consultation and close
  working between govt, local public sector and
  voluntary and community sector
• Key actions in performance improvement
  workforce devt ICT governance, finance and
  volunteering

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Volunteering Hub

• Being led by VE, business plan produced May 2005
• Themes for hub
• Strategy and Management (Regional Assemblies)
• Info dissemination, good practice Management
  development
• Modernising infrastructure

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Russell Commission

• Aspiration to attract 1 million more young
  volunteers across all forms of volunteering
  activity with more than half from 16-25 years age
  group
• Establish pattern of lifelong engagement in
  volunteering
• Embed a culture of volunteering among the young

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Russell Commission recommendations

• Campaigns to promote awareness of volunteering
• National volunteering portal
• Ensure young people receive high quality advice
  guidance
• All education institutions should have a
  volunteering ethos
• Accreditation Awards including Annual youth
  volunteering award ceremony
• Cont..

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• Access to a menu of opportunity
• 33,000 new taster and short-term opps 80,000
  new p/t opps 12,000 new f/t opps
• value of international volunteering
• Greater levels within public sector
• Easier access for those on benefits
• Capacity of organisations to engage disabled vols
  effectively

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Volunteering England and Sport

• Laura Ferguson working at National level within
  VE
• Working on developing infrastructure between
  Sport and Volunteering
• Lots of great work already going on locally
• Aiming to improve quality, quantity, diversity
  and partnership working between volunteering
  sector and sport..Lisa

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My details

• Heidi Rothwell
• Regional Volunteering Development Officer
• Volunteering England Eastern Region
• Tel [phone]
• Email heidi.rothwell_at_volunteeringengland.org
• www.volunteering.org.uk