This is not the post that we sat down to plan a few weeks ago. We had planned to spell out the background behind the Goldstar Project and all they had to share with respect to …identifying the barriers to recruiting volunteers from socially excluded groups and offered ways to overcoming them. Sadly, during the last minute checks for spelling and broken links we discovered that the project website was down. We’ve held off until now in hopes that it was just a minor technical [...]

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 existing project. An abbreviated outline of the presentation might look like this: A few of the major players in supported [...]

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 Campaign which is sadly no longer live – but that’s not why it’s been included as this week’s Video Tuesday entry. The people in the video describe a system where individuals earn time credits by the hour for time volunteered and then are allowed to spend those credits by calling [...]