VCSlough launch Volunteer Management Programme

TheVolunteer Management Programme is well under way at Volunteer Centre Slough. This Capacitybuilders funded project aims to improve the quality of volunteer management. The project has the same broad aims for all 25 funded projects nationally however in Slough emphasis will be put on supporting and improving the skills of those who work with volunteers in the smaller, newly formed groups as there are many of those...

Access to Volunteering Grants

An Access to Volunteering Grants Pilot has been established by the Office of the Third Sector at the behest of the Commission of the Future of Volunteering. The plan is to distribute £2 million of grants across three test regions - Greater London , West Midlands & North West) – to increase the capacity of recipient organisations to support and/or improve the engagement of disabled people within their...

A few new treats!

No doubt those of you who check the site regularly will have noticed our recent down time (nearly two weeks!). The situation was initially caused by what became daily attempts by spammers to hack the site for their own purposes and the problems this caused not only for us but for our host service providers. Fixing this in itself would have only taken a day or so but we decided to take the opportunity relaunch the...

The Shape of Volunteering

Our first workshop for organisations wanting to improve their understanding of supported volunteering is less than a week away so it seems an appropriate time to start laying out the ground work for the discussions we hope to inspire on the day. To ensure that we’re all on the same page as the discussion moves forward we have planned quick series of posts to give a shape to what it means to develop Supported...