Workshop notes – looking at the mechanics of SV

Below is the presentation we used during the Creating Chances4Volunteering workshops held in Guildford and Slough this past summer. We had 33 attendees sign up for the two days representing over 20 volunteer-engaging organisations – many those were fellow members of the chances4change consortium. The workshop was aimed at organisations who either did not have SV in place or who were looking to improve an...

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...

A blueprint for discussion

Image via Wikipedia We are keen to have as much input into the development of both this site as a resource and the Toolkit as we can get but we are under no illusions that we can sit back and wait for the web community to create everything for us. With that in mind we’ve set out below both the current draft outline for the Toolkit and a general bluerprint for the discussion we hope to lead here on the...