Club support
Please note – the following contains information about more than one organisation’s products and services
In this section:
- General information on volunteer management
- Find local support for your sports club on volunteering
- Training near you for volunteer coordinators or managers
- Running sports
- Ensure your sports club is at the cutting edge of volunteering
- Look online for volunteering opportunities all over the country
- Keep up to date with volunteer management, policy and news
General information on volunteer management
Why not find out how other people manage their volunteers?
By accessing Volunteering England's Good Practice Bank pages you will find
- articles
- information sheets
- links and other helpful guidance on a range of volunteering issues.
Each section also includes example and template documents to help you develop your own policies and information.
- Visit the new online information sheets all about Volunteer Management
- Find good practice tips on how to write a volunteer policy
- Find out How Volunteering England's Information Team can help you
Find local support on volunteering for your sports club
Volunteer Centres (often know as volunteer development agencies or volunteer bureaux) provide support at a local level for individual volunteers and organisations involving volunteers .Volunteering England can provide information on support networks near you. Find out about volunteering in your area
Training near you for volunteer coordinators or managers
Excellence in Volunteer Management (EVM) is designed to enable managers of volunteers to take charge of their own learning. It provides multiple options and ‘blended learning’ to suit specific learning needs and preferences – all of which are accessible at Volunteer Management training near you on the EVM website.
EVM provides managers of volunteers with the opportunity to:
- gain a recognised qualification
- choose from a wealth of learning resources
- join a network of like-minded managers of volunteers.
Running sports
Runningsports is dedicated to providing skills and support for volunteers and volunteer co-ordinators working in all sports. From quick online tips and tools, including volunteer management, to fun and informative workshops.
Runningsports workshops are practical, accessible, and recommended by more than 94% of volunteers who attend them. They are the ideal way to get to grips with the key issues facing you as a volunteer working in sport; and provide the perfect opportunity to swap ideas and learn from other people’s experiences.
For more information visit www.runningsports.org
Ensure your sports club is at the cutting edge of volunteering
Investing in Volunteers is the UK quality standard for all organisations involving volunteers in their work. The standard enables organisations to comprehensively review their volunteer management and publicly demonstrates their commitment to volunteering. Investing in Volunteers website
Investing in Volunteers (IiV) can be used in two stages:
- By using the standard as a framework for volunteer management (see the IiV Standard under “key documents”). You can use the standard free of charge to inform your volunteer policy, planning or strategy.
- By signing up to achieve the standard. This will mean working towards the full price standard over a number of months.
If you have clubmark you should already be able to demonstrate that your club meets 7 out of the 10 IiV indicators. The 3 remaining indicators are specifically on volunteer management, as clubmark does not currently contain any good practice on volunteer management within clubs. For further information see the mapping guide
Look online for volunteering opportunities all over the country
Visit do-it.org.uk and find volunteers for your organisation or search through over 800,000 opportunities to volunteer. This is the only national database of volunteer opportunities. Most of the volunteering opportunities are uploaded by Volunteer Centres across England – some other organisations can arrange access to upload opportunities directly. Either way, work in conjunction with your local Volunteer Centre for best effect.
Keep up to date with volunteer management, policy and news
Sign up to be a member of Volunteering England. Their membership package is being renewed so there should be plenty of attractions for sports organisations that involve volunteers.