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South Dublin Tidy towns 01 February 2012, 12.15
South Dublin Tidy towns
A South Dublin County Tidy Towns public meeting is taking place in Tallaght Stadium on Thursday 16th February at 7.30pm. Speakers will include a Tidy Towns competition adjudicator, Public Realm Designer, speaker from Lucan Tidy
Volunteer Centre Newsletter - January 12
Volunteer Centre Newsletter   Monday 9th January 2012 New Community Hub Announced. Are you a small community group in South
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Celebrate Volunteering! 17 November 2011, 14.40
Celebrate Volunteering!
Celebrate Volunteering on  5th December International Volunteer Day As you know, 2011 celebrated the European Year of Volunteering and we had many events in South Dublin
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New quality mark for volunteering! 07 November 2011, 15.25
New quality mark for volunteering!
Volunteer Ireland is delighted to announce that they recently secured funding from the EU as part of the European Year of Volunteering 2011 to develop a framework for a national quality standard for involving volunteers. This
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Ever thought about young people and volunteering? PDF Print E-mail

A Practical Checklist for organisations involving young people as volunteers

  • Target more information about volunteering opportunities at young people to help them make better choices.

  • Use positive images of volunteering (and less stereotyping) to attract younger people to your organisation.

  • Make volunteer opportunities attractive and appealing to young people. Variety and the fun

  • Create clear, progressive and varying volunteer roles for young people. Flexibility of volunteering (time and commitment) is important to reflect the diverse range of things which may be happening in a young person's life.

  • Make sure volunteering provides benefits to young people in terms of skills, new challenges, work experience and so on.

  • Ensure that young people feel valued and respected by others they may be volunteer with or for.

  • Make your volunteers feel empowered and consult and involve them in the development of their volunteering.

  • Provide a friendly and relaxed environment for young people to work in, with support from an identified person when they need it.

  • Ensure recognition of what young volunteers do, either by providing accreditation in the form of a qualification or simply providing a reference or record of achievement, stating skills and experience gained while they were volunteering.

  • Make sure young volunteers are never out - of - pocket.

  • Follow good practice in management of volunteers in all instances e.g. volunteer policy, recruitment and selection, induction, training, support and supervision.

  • Be creative and consider if there are tasks within the organisation which individual young volunteers or a group would be able to undertake and run as their own project, with back-up support

    Reprinted with permission of The Volunteer Development Agency

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