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Volunteer Friendly Award (VFA)
Ross-Shire Voluntary Action is registered To Assist & Enable Local Voluntary Groups To Gain The Volunteer Friendly Award. The Volunteer Friendly Award is a simple, user-friendly quality standard designed by Volunteer Center Dundee to support, recognize and reward groups who are good at involving volunteers. Many essential services in Scotland’s communities are enhanced by volunteers. Volunteering also has a significant social value as it is increasingly being used to give excluded individuals the chance to build their confidence and skills through helping others.
Connecting Carers and Young Carers
secure Volunteer Friendly Award!
It has never been more important for groups to be able to show how good they are at involving and managing their volunteers.
The Volunteer Friendly Award helps you to take a systematic look at what you do and how you do it. It offers a flexible approach which allows your group to work at its own pace, with full support from your local Volunteer Centre. It is based on the national standard Investing in Volunteers (IiV) but is designed for small organisations which may not be ready to undertake IiV yet, or which may be looking for a stepping stone towards IiV.
VF Award is a local quality award (based on the 10 standards from Investing in Volunteers) designed to:
There are three parts to The Volunteer Friendly Award:
For Further Information Please Contact Ross-Shire Voluntary Action : e-mail : biccs@rossvolact.org.uk or phone 01349 862431
More information can also be found on the Volunteer Friendly site.
Ross-Shire Voluntary Action is registered To Assist & Enable Local Voluntary Groups To Gain The Volunteer Friendly Award. The Volunteer Friendly Award is a simple, user-friendly quality standard designed by Volunteer Center Dundee to support, recognize and reward groups who are good at involving volunteers. Many essential services in Scotland’s communities are enhanced by volunteers. Volunteering also has a significant social value as it is increasingly being used to give excluded individuals the chance to build their confidence and skills through helping others.
Connecting Carers and Young Carers
secure Volunteer Friendly Award!
It has never been more important for groups to be able to show how good they are at involving and managing their volunteers.
The Volunteer Friendly Award helps you to take a systematic look at what you do and how you do it. It offers a flexible approach which allows your group to work at its own pace, with full support from your local Volunteer Centre. It is based on the national standard Investing in Volunteers (IiV) but is designed for small organisations which may not be ready to undertake IiV yet, or which may be looking for a stepping stone towards IiV.
VF Award is a local quality award (based on the 10 standards from Investing in Volunteers) designed to:
- Provide support, guidance and information on working with volunteers
- Recognise and reward groups who are good at working with volunteers
- Any group which involves volunteers to carry out its work or
- Any group thinking about involving volunteers to carry out its work
There are three parts to The Volunteer Friendly Award:
- Checklist for self - assessment
- Support to develop an action plan
- The Volunteer Friendly Award
For Further Information Please Contact Ross-Shire Voluntary Action : e-mail : biccs@rossvolact.org.uk or phone 01349 862431
More information can also be found on the Volunteer Friendly site.