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Jim McCallum

Jim McCallum. Team Leader, Volunteering Voluntary Action LeicesterShire (VAL). What VAL Does. Developing Groups Enabling Volunteering Creating volunteer opportunities ‘ Brokering ’ volunteers Do-it / VAL Practical problems focused on active citizenship. Volunteering .

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Jim McCallum

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  1. Jim McCallum Team Leader, Volunteering Voluntary Action LeicesterShire (VAL)

  2. What VAL Does Developing Groups • Enabling Volunteering • Creating volunteer opportunities • ‘Brokering’ volunteers • Do-it / VAL • Practical problems focused on active citizenship

  3. Volunteering • 30% of adults in UK volunteer • 500 local volunteer opportunities • 10,000 enquiries p.a. in Leics

  4. Volunteering Landscape • Volunteering slightly declining in UK • Unemployed volunteer less • Big demand for day time, high skills volunteering • Barriers • DBS checks • High Support Needs • Slow turnaround by volunteer-involving organisations

  5. Volunteering Landscape • Key plank of Leicestershire Communities in Charge programme • Leicestershire Together Volunteering Strategy • Priority for the Stronger Communities Board • LCC policy agreed on supporting and developing volunteers • Wide range of opportunities, now advertised together in one place: http://www.leics.gov.uk/volunteering

  6. Parish Councils and Volunteering • Volunteering within Parish Councils • Volunteering in small groups in villages • Marketing volunteering

  7. Think Leicestershire • Go Mad / Leicestershire County Council / Voluntary Action Leicestershire • Get ideas > build a plan > take action • Currently 157 Community Coaches • Newly active and existing activists • Supported by 27 Thinking Action Group leaders www.thinkleicestershire.org.uk

  8. Role of Parish Councils regarding Volunteering • Involving volunteers • Marketing volunteering • Notice board • Website • Word of mouth • Do-Its • VAL drop-ins • Signposting community groups/activists to VAL

  9. Questions • Does my Parish Council involve volunteers? • Should/can my Parish Council involve volunteers? • Can my Parish Council market volunteering? • What intelligence has my Parish Council about unmet needs that volunteers could help with locally? • What intelligence does my Parish Council have on needs of existing local groups?

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