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Celebrating our Community - Volunteering
Presenters: Tracy Elliott andNancy Jefferies
Aims
Outline a sample of staff volunteering activities.
Consider how volunteering could:– Enhance your job satisfaction– Develop your skills– Further your career opportunities– Contribute to the local community
What’s this thing called volunteering?
2012 Olympic Volunteer Games Makers
Contribution to community life
Portsmouth Together / City of Service
Develop skills and capability
Up For Sport
Part of the widening participation agenda
Supports community partnerships
Volunteer coaching opportunities
The Girls Network
Mission:to inspire and empower girls by connecting them with a network of positive female role models.
My journey so far:
•Was I the kind of person they were looking for?
•How would I know what to do?
•Who / how would I be mentoring?
•And now…….?
School Governors
Have you ever wanted to get behind the information you hear on the news
about school performance?
Do you want to make a difference to young people and learn more about your local community?
Do you like a challenge?
Do you want to develop your strategic business skills whilst
giving something back to education?
What does a School Governor Look Like?
Every governing body needs a mix of different backgrounds, skills and experience.
Transferable job-related skills are valuable, but not essential - having enthusiasm, commitment and a willingness to ask questions is just as important.
And you don't have to have children either……
Support and information
Range of training support
Paid time off is available
National Governor Association
Portsmouth School Governors
FoodCycle builds
communities by combining
volunteers, surplus food
and spare kitchen spaces
to create nutritious meals
for people at risk of food
poverty and social isolation.
Users of the service include: older people, mental health service users, homeless people, low-income families, asylum seekers and refugees the long term unemployed
Getting Involved: Preparing food, laying tables, serving, clearing up
(Sign up on line)
Somerstown St Peters HallThursday evenings(4.00pm – 8.00pm)
Old Portsmouth John Pounds Centre Tuesday evenings (5.00pm – 9.00pm)
FoodCycle builds
communities by combining
volunteers, surplus food
and spare kitchen spaces
to create nutritious meals
for people at risk of food
poverty and social isolation.
Wider Opportunities
Wider Opportunities
UOP Green ChampionsResearch
opportunities
Developing New Skills
Transferring new skills
Log/record your volunteering Review and reflect on knowledge and skills Discuss volunteering activity in your PDR Include volunteering skills in job
applications and CV Prepare examples of volunteering activity
for interviews
Pre-session questions
I see the benefits of volunteering as ……. I would like to volunteer but ……. gets in
the way I am interested in developing my skills in
………
On your way out
Are you considering volunteering? If so, why not make a note in your diary for 3 months time and review progress.
Remember the Games Makers?
…imagine what changes your volunteering could make…
Useful Resources 1 of 2Up For SportContacts: Charlotte Doyle and Zoe Monk Useful Links: http://www.upforsport.co.uk/index.php/coaching/
sport-and-recreation volunteering
The Girls NetworkContacts: Lyuda Wade, Nicola Haines, Nancy Jefferies, Emily WalshUseful Links: http://www.thegirlsnetwork.org.uk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRk_ggwuLpw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs
School GovernorsContacts: Lyuda Wade, Tracy ElliottUseful Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnm6BV5ft-8
http://www.nga.org.uk/Be-a-Governor.aspxhttps://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/ext/learning-and-schools/schools/school-governors.aspx
Useful Resources 2 of 2
FoodCycleContacts: Ashwini Tumali, Nancy Jefferies, Catherin TeelingUseful Links: http://foodcycle.org.uk/location/portsmouth-hub/
Videoswww.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-mAz34NA0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ckZ8x75PU
GeneralPortsmouth Together http://volunteer.portsmouth.gov.uk/search/ Do It - Volunteering Made Easy http://www.do-it.org.uk/
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