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Tuesday Jul 03, 2007

Volunteer management

Hey people yes another entry  well I have been busy....

Right well volunteer management over the last couple of weeks I have recruited a young volunteer which wasn't as straight forward as I thought it would be but we got there in the end.    They wanted to become a volunteer but were also looking for a student placement which was the confusing part as I had never dealt with student placements before.  So I learnt something new. 

More new info I learnt through doing my LANTRA course I have been looking at the background to Barnardo's and how volunteering actually came about starting right back when Dr Barnardo's was alive and with young people who were part of Barnardo's and still wanted to have some part in this so he formed the ‘Young Helpers League’ with young people from around the world who either fundraised or were part of support groups including those who had been part of Barnardo’s and then turned 18 so they were too old to be part of Barnardo’s services as well as other adults who wanted to be part of Barnardo’s so he formed the Voluntary Association of Adult Helpers.  So young volunteers were even around when Barnardos first started all those years ago.

Last week I also started to work with one of the young volunteers who is assisting me in running the Youth Achievement Award.  Looking at where people were at and I explained some of the group already have a head start in completing there challenges.  We also looked at the Platinum together and looked at how it will work for us both to complete the award while undertaken this role and discussed training for the role. 

We then came up with some ideas that we know are coming up with the YPRAG and how they fit in with challenges to come.  

Posted by Moira ( 1:56 PM )
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