Resources for Volunteer Managers
Guides, Toolkits, and Best Practice Tips for Volunteer Managers
These resources are available to help you onboard and manage volunteers.
There is also a Trello board for volunteer managers and coordinators with many more useful links and documents ordered by topic to help you find what you need.
There is also a Trello board for volunteer managers and coordinators with many more useful links and documents ordered by topic to help you find what you need.
The Volunteering Handbook
A handy booklet to use during the induction of a volunteer. It covers all the relevant best practice elements in the Leeds Volunteering Kitemark. Freely available for any organisation in Leeds to use with their volunteers.
Recruiting Volunteers with Criminal Convictions Toolkit
This toolkit is designed as a first step for organisations to ensure their volunteering programme is accessible to the prison community. It provides guidelines about what to consider when assessing potential volunteers with criminal convictions so that recruitment and support processes can be made inclusive and safe for staff, volunteers and service users.
Volunteers and Mental Health
Key points from the Volunteer Managers Network discussion about volunteers and mental health.
Top Tips: Volunteering from Home
How to approach confidentiality and data protection.
Top Tips: Writing Volunteers Roles
What to consider and include when you’re looking to recruit a volunteer role.
Top Tips: How to create a culture of diversity and inclusion within you volunteering programme
Ways to grow and diversify your volunteer pool.
Top Tips: What your Volunteers need to be happy
A reminder of why people volunteer in the first place and how you can keep volunteers happy.
Top Tips: What Your Volunteers Need to Become Your Next Best Employee
Volunteering for employability skills.
Top Tips: How to Conduct a Volunteer Engagement Survey
Top Tips: Managing Volunteers and the Cost of Living Crisis
Top Tips: Including Volunteers With a Physical Disability
Volunteer Induction Videos
This set of videos can be used during the induction process of your volunteers. These cover an introduction to:
- Safeguarding
- Equality and Diversity
- Confidentiality and Data Protection
- Staying Safe
While these can form a useful part of a volunteer’s training, they are not comprehensive. Use these videos alongside the information and policies relevant to your organisation and volunteer role.
To help you, we have produced a volunteer induction document corresponding to each of the videos which you and your volunteer can date and sign as you progress:
To help you, we have produced a volunteer induction document corresponding to each of the videos which you and your volunteer can date and sign as you progress:
