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Volunteering Lincolnshire Caty Collier / Gill Williamson. Purpose. Needs identified by the TLI group: Greater understanding of the range and diversity of volunteering, and its part within the whole scope of civil society and community action
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Purpose Needs identified by the TLI group: • Greater understanding of the range and diversity of volunteering, and its part within the whole scope of civil society and community action • Greater understanding of the dynamics of volunteering – the drivers and the environments that enable volunteering to flourish • Greater recognition of the need to invest in and support volunteer-involving organisations in order to achieve high quality volunteering opportunities
Aims • Act as the voice on volunteering issues in Lincolnshire • Collectively promote, support and develop volunteering across the county • Build cross-sector relationships that help to develop a positive environment for volunteering • Enable and encourage networking, learning and collaboration on volunteering issues • Promote access to quality volunteering opportunities for all residents, particularly those under-represented in volunteering
Membership • Steering group of up to 8, from Involving Lincs full member organisations • Wider membership of Involving Lincs full/associate members • Benefits: • Low cost publicity through joint action • Networking / peer learning • Opportunities for joint tendering
How the group will run • Meetings of steering group every 6 months • Scope for additional working groups • Role and responsibilities of chair, host and minute taker rotate amongst steering group members • Additional role on steering group for ‘webnag’ - to check Involving Lincs website activity and prompt contributions
Activities could include: • Promote and maintain Involving Lincs website volunteering pages - gateway to volunteering • Collective promotional activity, eg countywide volunteering awards/celebration • Campaigns and advocacy, eg Volunteers Week, volunteering within public services • Take forward key themes arising from the Transforming Local Infrastructure programme, eg reducing barriers to volunteering • Identify and co-ordinate opportunities for joint volunteering projects
Progress so far • First meeting Sept 2013 • Task group on volunteer recognition awards – 18 Nov 2013, Lincoln • Next full meeting - 3 March 2014, Grantham
Volunteering Lincolnshire • What could we achieve by working better together? • Are the priorities right? • How else could collaborative working benefit volunteering in Lincs?