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/