Activities
The following activities are suggestions to further
explore the issues raised by voluntary matters 3 in
group discussions or training
sessions.
You may choose to do the activities with other people
from your organisation or with people
from a range of organisations. Contact your local Volunteer
Bureau or Council for Voluntary Service
to see if there is already a group forum in your area.
If not, set one up!
Watching the Count Me In programme
in a group will raise a number of points, below are
other suggestions to get more out of a group session.
Discuss
As a group, discuss the advantages of encouraging
diversity amongst your volunteer group and
identify the potential challenges of
managing diverse volunteer groups. Spend about thirty
minutes talking this over.
Try
In pairs, talk about how representative your
organisation is of the wider community - spend
about twenty minutes on this.
On your own, consider each step in your process
of volunteering (first contact, application,
interview and screening, induction training, placement,
support and supervision) to see if there are any ways
in which your organisation might be unintentionally
discouraging some sections of the community. How could
you reduce these barriers? Write notes
on your own and then discuss with a partner. Spend about
forty-five minutes on this.
In small groups, identify a group in the community
which is under-represented in your organisation,
and discuss how you could make volunteering
more relevant and meaningful to this section
of the community. Try this for about forty-five minutes.
In pairs, think of suggestions for re-organising the
activities that your volunteers do in order to increase
the diversity of roles and offer a greater
range of volunteer opportunities - do this for about
thirty minutes.
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Where to now?
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- Try doing the scenario
in a group to see how you'd manage the recruitment
process of volunteers from different backgrounds
- Tell us how you got on with the group activities
in the discussion
- Check transmission details of the voluntary
matters 3 TV programme
or order the
video
- Check out links and publications in resources
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