Tania at Volunteer Centre Colchester explains how taking advantage of Do-it's free Writing Good Copy workshop and providing a service to their organisations is really paying dividends.

"It is always nice when things go well; to know that our efforts are appreciated and organisations are pleased with the service we provide.

At present, we are working towards achieving well written and eye catching opportunity descriptions and role titles for all the active opportunities that we advertise on Do-it. Existing and new organisations that register their opportunities with us are offered assistance in drafting or redrafting their descriptions. Through experience, having attended a 'Writing Good Copy' training session at Do-it and having taken on board a few suggestions from the Do-it proof readers, we have gained more knowledge about the do's and don'ts of opportunity description writing. We are now armed with enough know-how to support our organisations in this area; improving the responses they receive from prospective volunteers.

It is now becoming more and more common that we find a little thank you in our inbox or messages with words of gratitude and appreciation from organisations that are benefiting from the service we have provided. An environmental charity, which provided us with information about their admin role and left it in our hands to tweak and produce a final draft, said: 'Thank you very much for your really helpful suggestions which I feel are excellent.' Also, the Fundraising Manager from a leading cancer charity wrote 'That is brilliant, and I agree I think it would be good to have the word 'team' in the title.'

We hope to continue with this service and look forward to helping many more organisations successfully recruit volunteers."