Inspiration
Welcome to our blog! Here you'll find a whole range of stories, ideas and resources all about volunteering.
If you'd like to narrow your search, please use the categories panel on this page, or click on a tag after any blog.
These audience tags are usually a good place to start helpful: Volunteer, Organisations or Community.
Our volunteer management system, Volunteer Connect, has recently had some useful updates - find out how these changes benefit your charity or group!
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Guest blogger Sorrel Parsons of Superhighways shares her top 5 free and easy-to-use apps to help small charities better demonstrate their impact. Part of our new Digital resources blog series!
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A brief summary of some of the findings from our recent research pilot looking into the effects of volunteering on health and wellbeing.
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Find out about Volunteer Centre Sutton's successes in 2016-17 by checking out our infographic, key highlights from our AGM and our digital Annual Report.
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Are you a charity that would like to apply for up to £200 for Rewarding & Supporting Volunteer Participation? Apply for the RSVP fund now!
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This Trustees Week, many organisations will be celebrating their trustees who volunteer their time and skills in governance. Trustees make a huge impact - why not look into becoming one yourself?
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We asked Judith Smith, Pastor of Horizon Church Sutton to write a guest blog about the positive experiences her church has had hosting Employer-Supported Volunteer teams at her church building, from which several community projects are run. She shares about the impact of ESV, some of the challenges and her top tips for any organisation thinking of hosting an ESV team.
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Employer Supported Volunteering (ESV) has great potential for growth. Volunteer Centre Sutton hosted its most recent Volunteering Forum around the topic, hearing from the experiences of a charity who has accessed ESV support and a business who has empowered its staff to provide it, and discussing the way forward for ESV in the London Borough of Sutton.
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Volunteers are vital for making London such a world-class city; without them charities and organisations that depend on their contribution of time, skills and passion would struggle to exist.
Nominations for this year's Team London Awards, which recognise and celebrate volunteers' outstanding achievements, are now open. Nominate your volunteers now!
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On 7th June, we'll be hosting a BIG breakfast celebrating volunteering across the London borough of Sutton. Book now for your free ticket. #volunteersweek
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VCS's Volunteering Development Manager, Pat Stanley, has 15 years' experience training in the voluntary sector and advising organisations in developing Good Practice in Volunteer Management, Here, she asks some important questions of those managing volunteers.
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