Nuts & Bolts: Managing Volunteers
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This document provides tips for recruiting, retaining, and managing volunteers. It discusses the importance of volunteer work and giving volunteers opportunities to use their gifts. Some key tips include thinking creatively about recruitment opportunities, conducting safer recruitment practices like interviews and background checks, providing a thorough induction and training, empowering young volunteers, and regularly thanking volunteers for their service.
Nuts & Bolts: Managing Volunteers
- 1. Saturday 16th September 2017 Volunteers Reaching, Keeping and Managing
- 2. To Give you some tips on how to Recruit, Keep and Manage Volunteers Aim Of The Session
- 3. Everyone can be great. Because anybody can serve. You dont have to have a college degree to serve. You dont have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You dont have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You dont have to know about Einsteins theory of relativity to serve. You don't need to know about the second theory of thermo- dynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love. Martin Luther King Jr
- 4. Brief History of Childrens andYouthWork Robert Raikes (1780) - Credited with setting up Sunday Schools. Hannah Moore (1785) - Credited with being the 鍖rst youth worker. Arthur Sweatman (1863) - Wrote a report for statuary youth work Albermarle Report (1960) - Beginning of StatutoryYouth Work Banking Crisis (2008) - End of Statutory Youth Work
- 5. The church was designed to be a volunteer organisation. The power of the church truly is the power of everybody as men and women, young and old, offer their gifts to work out Gods redemptive plan. Bill Hybels
- 6. Encourage Volunteers to use their gifts and abilities in their work.
- 7. Think Outside the Box
- 8. What area are you looking for volunteers? What is interesting/important/worthwhile about the ministry you are involved with? What sort of tasks will you be asking volunteers to do? What might they get out of it? What sort of people might be interested? Recruitment Practicalities
- 9. Church Notices Newsletters Current Activity Groups Community Organisations Community Newsletters Community Radio Notice Boards Local Libraries Local Voluntary Service Places to Recruit Volunteers
- 10. Treat all would-be volunteers as job applicants for any position involving children and young people. Ask them to 鍖ll out a simple Job Application form. Have an informal interview, in which you discuss the applicants experience and areas of interest and explain more about what volunteering involves. Take up references from someone who has experience of the applicants paid work or previous volunteering with children or young people. Do a DBS check Make voluntary applications conditional on a 3 month probationary period Steps to Safer Recruitment
- 11. The vision and the aims Introducing Key people they need to meet Relevant policies - safeguarding/child protection, Health and Safety Relevant procedures - how these things are done, recordings, team meetings, decision making, discipline etc. Practical Issues for instance where things are kept and how equipment works. Clear Expectations Training A Good Induction
- 12. Empower your Young People Ask if your young people would like to help Train them to become a leader (assisted by adults) Be open to learn from your young people
- 13. Remember to Thank Your Volunteers
- 14. Think outside the box - can people do different parts of the session like craft, story, application, games. Dont ask a volunteer to go straight into leading - build them up. Go through safer recruitment guidelines - DBS every volunteer Have a good induction - and regular team meetings (over food) Allow your volunteers to take ownership Empower and use your young people Top Tips