VE launches Volunteer Rights Inquiry
December 2009
The Volunteer Rights Inquiry is keen to hear from a wide range of people with thoughts on and in interest in the issues of volunteer rights and redress. Whether you are a volunteer; a volunteer manager; a representative of a volunteer involving organisation; someone in the public, private or voluntary and community sector; someone with good or bad experiences to share; or simply someone with an opinion on the topic, the Volunteer Rights Inquiry wants to hear from you.
The Volunteer Rights Inquiry is especially keen to hear people's thoughts on how volunteer involving organisation can prevent problems by treating volunteers well and what mechanisms could be put in place to provide an independent means of redress when, unfortunately, things do go wrong.
However, before you tell us what you think, please take a moment to find out a little more about the Volunteer Rights Inquiry by reading our Q&A document at http://www.volunteering.org.uk/WhatWeDo/Policy/Volunteer+Rights+Inquiry/... and/or watching a short video about our work at http://www.youtube.com/VolunteeringEngland.
To share your thoughts with us please visit http://www.volunteering.org.uk/WhatWeDo/Policy/Volunteer+Rights+Inquiry/... and fill in the form. Please also use this form to tell us if you'd like to come and speak with Inquiry members in person to tell us your story. You can also tell us what you think by uploading a video to Volunteering England's YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/VolunteeringEngland.
We also have the facility to hear from people via Twitter. Please tweet your thoughts followed by the #VRInquiry hash-tag. You may also want to follow Volunteering England on Twitter - http://twitter.com/volunteeringeng.
Finally, if you'd like to contact the Volunteer Rights Inquiry on any other matter, then please email volunteering.rights@volunteeringengland.org
(From Rob Jackson on behalf of Volunteering England. Rob Jackson is Founder and lead moderator of UKVPMs)
Volunteering at the fringe
29th September, 2009
Third Sector Minister Angela Smith speaks at the Labour Party Conference Fringe - we were there!
You can watch a video clip of what Angela Smith MP had to say here.
Volunteer Centre on Radio Reverb
14th August, 2009
Hear our Volunteer Centre co-ordinator and one of our volunteers talking about volunteering in the city on Brighton community radio station Radio Reverb (the programme was broadcast on Thursday 13th August).
You can download an audio clip of the programme here.
Manifesto for Change
Press release: 28 January 2008
Volunteering must be a part of society's DNA
Baroness Julia Neuberger, Chair of the Commission on the Future of Volunteering, is demanding a fundamental shake-up to make volunteering part of the DNA of our society and improve volunteering for millions of Britons over the next ten years…
