Celebrating our Community - Volunteering

Presenters: Tracy Elliott andNancy Jefferies

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

What’s this thing called volunteering?

2012 Olympic Volunteer Games Makers

Contribution to community life

Portsmouth Together / City of Service

Develop skills and capability

http://www.upforsport.co.uk/index.php/coaching/coaching-pathway/

Up For Sport

Part of the widening participation agenda

Supports community partnerships

Volunteer coaching opportunities

“You can’t be what you can’t see”

The Girls Network

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

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…….?

School Governors

Have you ever wanted to get behind the information you hear on the news

about school performance?

Do you want to make a difference to young people and learn more about your local community?

Do you like a challenge?

Do you want to develop your strategic business skills whilst

giving something back to education?

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……

Support and information

Range of training support

Paid time off is available

National Governor Association

Portsmouth School Governors

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.

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

Getting Involved: Preparing food, laying tables, serving, clearing up

(Sign up on line)

Somerstown St Peters HallThursday evenings(4.00pm – 8.00pm)

Old Portsmouth John Pounds Centre Tuesday evenings (5.00pm – 9.00pm)

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.

Wider Opportunities

Wider Opportunities

UOP Green ChampionsResearch

opportunities

Developing New Skills

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

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

………

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…

Useful Resources 1 of 2Up For SportContacts: Charlotte Doyle and Zoe Monk Useful Links: http://www.upforsport.co.uk/index.php/coaching/

sport-and-recreation volunteering

The Girls NetworkContacts: Lyuda Wade, Nicola Haines, Nancy Jefferies, Emily WalshUseful Links: http://www.thegirlsnetwork.org.uk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRk_ggwuLpw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs

School GovernorsContacts: Lyuda Wade, Tracy ElliottUseful Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnm6BV5ft-8

http://www.nga.org.uk/Be-a-Governor.aspxhttps://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/ext/learning-and-schools/schools/school-governors.aspx

Useful Resources 2 of 2

FoodCycleContacts: Ashwini Tumali, Nancy Jefferies, Catherin TeelingUseful Links: http://foodcycle.org.uk/location/portsmouth-hub/

Videoswww.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-mAz34NA0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ckZ8x75PU

GeneralPortsmouth Together http://volunteer.portsmouth.gov.uk/search/ Do It - Volunteering Made Easy http://www.do-it.org.uk/