Volunteer Centre Greenwich
| Name of Organisation |
| Volunteer Centre Greenwich |
| Why did you decide to go for Investing in Volunteers? |
- To demonstrate our commitment to our volunteers.
- Ensure and improve our quality of delivery.
- Bring credibility to our service.
- To ‘lead the way’ – wouldn’t ask our members to go through something we haven’t.
- To help with funding.
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| What benefits have you found from working towards Investing in Volunteers? |
- Gave us the opportunity to compare our own practices against the standard.
- Review and improve our practices.
- Used to promote recruitment and include on funding bids.
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| Tell us about your experience of the assessment process in your organisation. |
| It was a large timetable to organise but it worked well on the day. One volunteer was ill but able to undertake a telephone assessment. |
| 5 Practical tips you would give another organisation working towards Investing in Volunteers - Involve the whole team (volunteers, staff and trustees) so responsibilities can be shared
- Regular meetings to check progress and to help keep on track so can meet assessment day deadline.
- Be realistic about time commitments.
- Ensure everybody kept up to date on progress
- Reassure volunteers on the procedure as can get worried about the assessment and feel responsible.
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