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Welcome to our blog! Here you'll find a whole range of stories, ideas and resources all about volunteering.

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Pat Stanley, Volunteering Development Manager, shares the key take-aways from our July Volunteering Forum

Volunteers' Week is a chance to celebrate and say thank you for the fantastic contribution millions of volunteers make across the UK.

Our Young Commissioners help shape Healthwatch Sutton's recent survey into young people and mental health

Your free online volunteer recruitment platform just got better!

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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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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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A brief summary of some of the findings from our recent research pilot looking into the effects of volunteering on health and wellbeing

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.

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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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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