We are also excited to announce our new hot off the press easy to use guide to taking on young volunteers.
Our intrepid Volunteer Lead Roisin Connell has been out and about, chatting to young people at schools and colleges, finding out from young people themselves, just how much they want to volunteer and how hard it can be to find a volunteer placement.
We have also been learning from you, the CVS organisations, about what the barriers are to taking on younger volunteers. Concerns about getting it right for the young person are rightly the top worry. We have also heard:
‘ Will my insurance cover younger volunteers?’
‘ What safegaurding checks do I need to have in place?’
‘How do I go about getting PVG checks done?’
This simple, easy to manoeuvrer guide can take you through all this and more with an appendix full of templates, to get you started on your journey to taking on your first younger volunteer!
