Diversity resources
vm3 Guides
How to write a role
specification
Information on
criminal record checks for volunteers
Video
voluntary matters 3 - an exciting
and innovative BBC series of six programmes about inspiring
and motivating volunteers - order
the video
Organisations featured in the programme
Black Environment Network www.ben-network.org.uk
Bristol Zoo Gardens www.bristolzoo.co.uk
Thames 21 www.thames21.org.uk
Websites
For information on job substitution, ethnic monitoring,
institutional racism and specific volunteering issues
National Association of Volunteer Bureaux www.navb.org.uk
Information on accepting volunteers from outside the
UK, asylum seekers as volunteers, volunteering whilst
claiming social security benefits, and free guides 'The
Recruitment Guide' and 'From Barriers to Bridges: a
guide for volunteer-involving organisations'
The National Centre for Volunteering
www.volunteering.org.uk
More on increasing the diversity of your volunteers
Diversity Challenge www.diversitychallenge.org
Information on the Race Relations Act, equal opportunities
policies and a ten-point implementation plan
Commission for Racial Equality www.cre.gov.uk
Further information on asylum seekers' rights
Refugee Council www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
Government information on disabled people's rights
and the law
Disability Rights Task Force www.disability.gov.uk
London's lesbian and gay volunteer bureau
VolunQueer www.volunqueer.org.uk
Information and advice for people working with ex-offenders
National Association for the Care and Resettlement
of Offenders www.nacro.org.uk
Books
A thought-provoking booklet about institutional racism
Somebody Else's Problem: working with black
volunteers
National Association of Volunteer Bureaux, see website
above
A series of five booklets for advice on how to involve
volunteers from all walks of life
Route to Opportunity
Filiz Niyazi (1996) The National Centre for Volunteering
ISBN 1897708521
A practical guide to involving volunteers with disabilities
Disability Equality in Volunteering
Rachel Wilson (1998) Skill: National Bureau for Students
with Disabilities ISBN 1869965876
A study of black and ethnic minority organisations
and volunteering
My time, My community, My self
Seema Bhasin (1997) The National Centre for Volunteering
ISBN 1897708920
For advice on how to attract and retain young volunteers
Involving Young People
Tesse Akpeki (2001) NCVO ISBN 0719915880
Reading around the subject
A challenge to assumptions about minority groups
Who do we think we are?
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (2001) Penguin Books ISBN 0140255982
An enquiry into the meaning of identity
On Identity
Amin Maalouf (2000) Panther ISBN 1860467296
Essays by disabled women struggling with prejudice
What happened to you? Writing by disabled women
Lois Keith (Ed) (1996) New Press ISBN 1565842804
Born blind, David Blunkett recounts his struggle to
the top
On a clear day
David Blunkett (1995) Michael O'Mara Books ISBN 1854797417
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