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Celebrating our Community Volunteering
Presenters: Tracy Elliott and Nancy 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
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
Do you want to develop your strategic business skills whilst giving something back to education? Do you want to make a difference to young people and learn more about your local community?
Do you like a challenge?
Have you ever wanted to get behind the information you hear on the news about school performance?
What does a School Governor Look Like?
And you don't have to have children either…… 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.
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) Old Portsmouth John Pounds Centre Tuesday evenings (5.00pm – 9.00pm) Somerstown St Peters Hall Thursday evenings (4.00pm – 8.00pm)
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
Research opportunities
Wider Opportunities
UOP Green Champions
Developing New Skills
Up for Sport
Planning Coaching Motivating Negotiation
Girls Network
Role Modelling Influencing Building Rapport Resourcefulness
School Governors
Strategic thinking Questioning Financial Awareness Data Analysis
Food Cycle
Supervising Working in a team Working to tight deadlines Problem solving
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…
Up For Sport
Contacts: Useful Links:
Useful Resources 1 of 2
Charlotte Doyle and Zoe Monk http://www.upforsport.co.uk/index.php/coaching/ sport-and-recreation volunteering
The Girls Network
Contacts: Lyuda Wade, Nicola Haines, Nancy Jefferies, Emily Walsh Useful Links: http://www.thegirlsnetwork.org.uk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRk_ggwuLpw www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs
School Governors
Contacts: Useful Links: Lyuda Wade, Tracy Elliott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnm6BV5ft-8 http://www.nga.org.uk/Be-a-Governor.aspx
https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/ext/learning-and schools/schools/school-governors.aspx
Useful Resources 2 of 2
FoodCycle
Contacts: Useful Links: Ashwini Tumali, Nancy Jefferies, Catherin Teeling http://foodcycle.org.uk/location/portsmouth-hub/
Videos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-mAz34NA0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ckZ8x75PU
General
Portsmouth Together http://volunteer.portsmouth.gov.uk/search/ Do It - Volunteering Made Easy http://www.do-it.org.uk/