Welcome to the Volunteer Coordinator Community
WVA's Volunteer Coordinator Community offers a space for all those who work with volunteers in Warrington to come together. Whether you coordinate, manage, lead, facilitate. If you work directly with volunteers in Warrington, you are welcome to join.
The Coordinator community aims to bring volunteer coordinators from across Warrington’s VCSE to come together.
- Networking
- Collaboration
- Sharing best practice
- Sharing successes across the sector
For more information about the network, please email shaylah@warringtonva.org.uk
The Pledge - A tool to inspire
WVA have a number of tools to help groups to grow and improve. Whatever size, age or mission, our quality tools can support you to work out what is best for you so you are running at your most efficient. The Pledge offers groups a tool to inspire and ignite their volunteering programmes. It will help you consider your volunteering programme as a whole and a chance to reflect and improve on practices.
Find out more here
WVA Tools for Volunteer Managers
Please see below a range of tools available to support you as a volunteer coordinator. If there is anything specific you are looking for that is not listed below, please contact shaylah@warringtonva.org.uk
RESOURCE | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| Creating Volunteer Opportunities | This guide is designed to help you through the journey of writing a volunteer advert. It helps you to consider what potential volunteers might like to know about volunteering with your organisation. You might find this helpful when writing a new advert for volunteers. |
| Managing and Motivating in challenging scenarios | This guide is packed with suggestions and questions to ask yourself when dealing with a challenging situation involving volunteers (or anyone you are leading) |
| The Pledge | The Pledge is a reflection tool aiming to inspire and ignite volunteering programmes. It will help you consider your volunteering programme as a whole and a chance to reflect and improve on practices. |
| Volunteer Manager Do's and Don'ts | This is a list of tips, based on elements of volunteer coordinating that we feel are worth discussing or stating. This list is based on general good practice, and is designed to inspire conversation and reflection. |
| Volunteer Management - Problem Solving Procedure Guidance | This guide is based on good practice when it comes to problem solving procedures |
| Volunteering Policy Template | This template is intended as a guide for volunteer involving organisations |
| Volunteer Expenses Policy Template | This template is a guide that covers an organisations policy regarding volunteer expenses |