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...

Middleton Park...

This is another clip from the Volunteer Films project on the Community Channel. I realise that this is a somewhat sheltered situation in that it brings together two organisations – MPEC and Mencap...

News round up for 30 March...

The latest bits & bobs that we find in our work – some about supported volunteering, some about other related issues. As always thoughts and observations about any of these stories are welcome below...

It's About Time...

Below is a link to a video entitled It’s About Time which was part of the Volunteer Films Project on the Community Channel. This clip was published in the spring of 2008 as part of the Time Banking...

Video Tues – Disability to Abi...

When we first conceived of this project one of the groups we wondered about was young people. Are they, in terms of common barriers to volunteering, a practical segmentation of our local communities or is 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...