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Celebrating our Community - Volunteering

Discover the benefits of volunteering and how it can enhance job satisfaction, skills development, and career opportunities while contributing to the community. Explore various volunteering opportunities and resources.

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Celebrating our Community - Volunteering

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  1. Celebrating our Community - Volunteering Presenters: Tracy Elliott and Nancy Jefferies

  2. 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

  3. What’s this thing called volunteering? • 2012 Olympic Volunteer Games Makers • Contribution to community life • Portsmouth Together / City of Service • Develop skills and capability

  4. Up For Sport • Part of the widening participation agenda • Supports community partnerships • Volunteer coaching opportunities

  5. “You can’t be what you can’t see”

  6. The Girls Network Mission: to inspire and empower girls by connecting them with a network of positive female role models.

  7. 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…….?

  8. School Governors Do you want to develop your strategic business skills whilst giving something back to education? Do you want to make a difference to young people and learn more about your local community? Do you like a challenge? Have you ever wanted to get behind the information you hear on the news about school performance?

  9. 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……

  10. Support and information • Range of training support • Paid time off is available • National Governor Association • Portsmouth School Governors

  11. 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.

  12. Users of the service include: • older people, • mental health service users, • homeless people, • low-income families, • asylum seekers and refugees • the long term unemployed

  13. Getting Involved: Preparing food, laying tables, serving, clearing up (Sign up on line) Old Portsmouth John Pounds Centre Tuesday evenings (5.00pm – 9.00pm) Somerstown St Peters Hall Thursday evenings (4.00pm – 8.00pm)

  14. 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.

  15. Wider Opportunities

  16. Wider Opportunities UOP Green Champions Research opportunities

  17. Developing New Skills

  18. 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

  19. 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 ………

  20. 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…

  21. Useful Resources 1 of 2 Up For Sport Contacts: Charlotte Doyle and Zoe Monk Useful Links: http://www.upforsport.co.uk/index.php/coaching/ sport-and-recreation volunteering The Girls Network Contacts: Lyuda Wade, Nicola Haines, Nancy Jefferies, Emily Walsh Useful Links: http://www.thegirlsnetwork.org.uk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRk_ggwuLpw www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs School Governors Contacts: Lyuda Wade, Tracy Elliott Useful Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnm6BV5ft-8 http://www.nga.org.uk/Be-a-Governor.aspx https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/ext/learning-and-schools/schools/school-governors.aspx

  22. Useful Resources 2 of 2 FoodCycle Contacts: Ashwini Tumali, Nancy Jefferies, Catherin Teeling Useful Links: http://foodcycle.org.uk/location/portsmouth-hub/ Videos www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-mAz34NA0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ckZ8x75PU General Portsmouth Together http://volunteer.portsmouth.gov.uk/search/ Do It - Volunteering Made Easy http://www.do-it.org.uk/

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