Volunteer recruitment resources

There are many organisations dedicated to the recruitment of volunteers that could provide assistance to organisations searching for volunteers - and keen volunteers looking for opportunities.

Volunteer Centre

A Volunteer Centre could be described as a dating agency for volunteers! Organisations requiring volunteers go to a Volunteer Centre and people keen to volunteer go to a Volunteer Centre as well. Then, the Volunteer Centre matches the placement to the individual.

Find out where your local Volunteer Centre is - they will be able to help you in a variety of ways. Not only will they seek out volunteers for you but they are also great sources of advice regarding the management of volunteers. Some of them will also be able to advise you on sources of funding.

To receive a copy of the Volunteer Centre Directory call 01216 334 555 or vist the website www.vde.org.uk and look under Volunteer development agencies.

Sport England www.sportengland.org

It is strongly advised that you become a member of Sport England's Volunteer Investment Programme (VIP) Network by ringing 0800 363 373.

As a member of this programme, you will receive invaluable information spanning everything from recognition of volunteers to development, planning, training and indeed, support whenever required.

The Experience Corps www.experiencecorps.co.uk

The Experience Corps is an independent, non-profit making company funded by a grant-in-aid from the Home Office.

Their role is to encourage people over the age of 50 to offer their skills, talent and experience to local organisations that could benefit from them.

Do-It www.do-it.org.uk

This site is an ideal recruitment and marketing tool for volunteer-involving organisations.

Furthermore, it provides a free advertising opportunity for agencies to recruit volunteers and promote their organisation at the same time.

REACH www.reach-online.org.uk/

The aim of REACH is to recruit and support people with managerial, professional, business and technical experience and match them with part-time, voluntary roles throughout the UK.

RSVP www.csv-rsvp.org.uk

Another organisation dedicated to the recruitment of the older volunteer.

You can contact them by phone on 0207 643 1385

Millennium Volunteers www.mvonline.gov.uk

Millennium Volunteers (MV) are young people aged 16-24 who give their free time to help their local communities: coaching a sports team,working at a community radio programme, helping create a garden for local residents or volunteering in the world of sport.

For a contact appropriate to your region, look at the website or call the helpline on 0800 917 8185.

UK Youth www.youthclubs.org.uk

Provides for young people's participation and promotes learning opportunities through programmes and projects dealing with a number of activities, including sport.

TIMEBANK www.TimeBank.co.uk

TimeBank is basically the voluntary sector's PR machine.They want to increase the number of volunteers out there and to do this they endeavour to make volunteering, in whatever guise, look 'sexy'!

Contact them if you are holding some sort of event - a CricketForce day for example - that you think would positively raise the profile of volunteers working in the world of cricket.

Prince's Trust www.princes-trust.org.uk

The Prince's Trust works with young people aged between 14-30. They believe that every young person has potential, but that many don't have the opportunity to fulfil it.

They run a unique programme called 'Volunteers' where the unemployed and employed work together as a team on community challenges and other projects.

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