The ever increasing demand for voluntary sector support to meet local community needs for health and well-being services and activities, without the numbers of volunteers or funding required to provide it, is having a significant effect on VCSE organisations.
Apart from spontaneous volunteering in response to an immediate crisis or local need, volunteering, and voluntary action, need infrastructure support and guidance on good-practice, in order to thrive.
The Vision for Volunteering is a movement to create a diverse, innovative, ambitious, equitable and person-centred future for volunteering.
It is a ten year initiative to transform volunteering, that sets out a good-practice view of what volunteering needs to look like, and how this will make volunteers feel about their roles by 2032. It covers 5 themes:
- Awareness and Appreciation – A future where a culture of volunteering is part of everyone’s life and volunteer roles are given the recognition they deserve.
- Power – A future where volunteers (and the communities they serve) lead on change that matters to them.
- Equity and Inclusion – A future where it’s easy for people to give their time and energy to the causes they care about, they feel welcomed, and the benefits are equally distributed.
- Collaboration – A future where collaboration is natural and spontaneous, where people do great stuff together because they want to.
- Experimentation – A future where communities aren’t afraid to try new things to develop their own, innovative solutions to engaging and supporting volunteers.
To find out more, please go to: https://www.visionforvolunteering.org.uk/
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