Welcome to the Inclusive Volunteering web page
Here you’ll find resources to help ensure your volunteering programme is as inclusive as possible.
This page has been developed by the Leeds Volunteer Managers Network as your one-stop shop for inclusive volunteering practice.
We have curated a range of resources published by leading specialists in volunteering.
If your organisation works to these principles within your volunteering programme then please use this form to make your pledge!
Documents you can Download
Resources
Here are some links to external resources to ensure that you are delivering an inclusive offer:
Trustees
Equality and inclusion
Top Tips Inclusion in Volunteering (volunteerscotland.net)
Building a more inclusive space for volunteers (communitysouthwark.org)
Equity, diversity and inclusion in volunteering | NCVO
Time Well Spent: Diversity and Volunteering
Top Tips Inclusion in Volunteering – Glasgow Womens Library (volunteerscotland.net)
Mental health
Top Tips Inclusion in Volunteering – Health in Mind (volunteerscotland.net)
Top Tips Inclusion in Volunteering – Scottish Drugs Forum (volunteerscotland.net)
Physical disabilities
How can we make volunteering more inclusive for disabled people? | NCVO
Including Volunteers With Vision Impairment | Sight Scotland
Top Tips Inclusion in Volunteering – Lead Scotland (volunteerscotland.net)
Supported Volunteering – Community Works
Top Tips Inclusion in Volunteering – Dyslexia Scotland (volunteerscotland.net)
Top Tips Inclusion in Volunteering – RNID Scotland (volunteerscotland.net)
Inclusion Top Tips (volunteerscotland.net)
Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Volunteering among Refugees & Asylum Seekers.pptx
Top Tips Inclusion in Volunteering – Scottish Refugee Council (volunteerscotland.net)
Academic Research
Informal Volunteering, Inequality, and Illegitimacy – Jon Dean, 2022 (sagepub.com)
Capital, Inequality, and Volunteering (unit.no)
Introduction – Time Well Spent 2023: Volunteering among the global majority | News index | NCVO
Volunteer Wellbeing – What Works and Who Benefits
Criminal Convictions
Involving volunteers with criminal convictions
Involving young people with criminal convictions as volunteers
Youth Volunteering
Older Volunteers
Projects
Want to find out more about our work? Check out some of the projects we have worked on below.