Surrey vinvolved Training

As Surrey vinvolved increases the identification and development of youth-friendly opportunities for young people, it is committed to providing support for organisations who use young volunteers, or who are exploring the opportunity to developing more young people in their voluntary force.

The Surrey vinvolved team provides a series of different training programmes for organisations who may benefit from using youth volunteers by helping them create youth friendly volunteering opportunities and provide supportive volunteering environments for young people. There is provision of training workshops to help develop youth volunteering engagement on different levels, exploring topics such as marketing and advertising, best practice guidelines, policies and procedures, all with supportive documentation and the production of associated hand-outs/best practice material.

During 2008/9, Surrey vinvolved ran 3 successful workshops on the benefits of Youth Volunteering, entitled “Engaging youth volunteers” which addressed issues such as how to attract young people, policies and procedures that are relevant for working with young people, and different marketing techniques to attract youth volunteers. In 2009/10 three half-day training workshops entitled “Planning a project for youth volunteers” were delivered, with the aim to provide information and ideas about how organisations can engage youth volunteers by offering taster projects. If planned well, these can be a very effective means of attracting new volunteers and encouraging them to consider doing more regular volunteering.

Surrey vinvolved not only holds training county-wide, but is available to provide bespoke in-house training for organisations.

Please contact us to discuss this further:

info@surreyvinvolved.org

01737 784970

Upcoming Training:

“Engaging Youth Volunteers!”

Thursday 22 July 2010, 10am-4pm.

Venue: Godalming Baptist Church,

Cost: FREE!

This training day is always helpful for any organisation and staff member who work with, or who want to work with, young volunteers. Designed to be informative as well as a forum for sharing and developing best practice, this day aims to help organisations develop an understanding of the importance & benefits of involving young people as volunteers; recognise different levels of involvement & support needed for volunteers in both short-term and long-term placements; examine policies and procedures needed for young volunteers; and identify various marketing and advertising tools one can use.

Delegates also have the opportunity to attend 2 out of 3 workshops to explore in greater detail issues that are specific to their organisation’s needs.

Book your FREE place today! - Download the booking form here.