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Volunteer Centre Kingston

Name of Organisation

Volunteer Centre Kingston

Why did you decide to go for Investing in Volunteers?

To improve the way we manage volunteers and to achieve recognition of our existing volunteer management.

What benefits have you found from working towards Investing in Volunteers?

Getting all our policies and procedures for volunteers both up to date but also having the input from the volunteers themselves in the development of these documents. It was also a great opportunity to get them all in one place – the documents that is!

Tell us about your experience of the assessment process in your organisation.

Initially terrifying but we all soon calmed down once we realised it wasn’t going to be a grilling. Very thorough.

5 Practical tips you would give another organisation working towards Investing in Volunteers

  • Be realistic with time scales
  • Involve everyone
  • Delegate
  • Celebrate