WELCOME TO CHELTENHAM VOLUNTEER CENTRE!
Our Purpose:
"To provide a range of services to meet the volunteering needs of individuals and organisations, hence helping to combat social isolation and improve quality of life."
Volunteers are at the heart of every charity, voluntary organisation and community group in the country. Here at Cheltenham Volunteer Centre we pride ourselves on the services we provide to both individuals and organisations.
Our Volunteer Centre is happy to deal with email, phone or personal enquiries and our offices are open to the public from 10:00 until 16:00 (10am til 4pm) weekdays.
Cheltenham Volunteer Centre are the county specialists in ‘Supported Volunteering’. This is for clients referred from a wide range of agencies covering mental, physical and learning difficulties as well as ex-offenders and those in recovery from drug and alcohol problems. See [Specialisms Project] for further information.
Every Volunteer Centre has six core functions through which it provides support for individual volunteers and volunteer-involving organisations.
- Brokerage (i.e. matching interest in volunteering with appropriate opportunities)
- Marketing Volunteering (encourage local interest through promotional events and activities)
- Good Practice Development (research, training, support networks, partnership working and external quality accreditation)
- Development of Volunteering Opportunities (by working in close partnership with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies)
- Policy Response & Campaigning (identify policy proposals or legislation that may impact on volunteering and ensure VCS engagement and input).
- Strategic Development of Volunteering (as the local experts on volunteering we inform strategic thinking and planning at local, sub-regional, regional and indeed national level).
Cheltenham Volunteer Centre is an active member of the countywide Change Up Consortium known as 'Gloucestershire Infrastructure Group' (GIG) and leads on the Volunteering Strand (as well as taking a leading role on the Governance Strand and participation in the Performance Improvement and Workforce Development Strands).
Cheltenham Volunteer Centre is an accredited member of Volunteering England (formerly the National Association of Volunteer Bureaux) and provides a wide range of information, advice and guidance to Volunteer Involving Organisations. See our ‘Advice & Information’ and ‘Projects’ pages for further details.
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