Do you involve your service users as volunteers? When we ask this question, the answer tends to vary from “yes, very much so” through to “well I think we could do more to involve service users”. At Swindon Mind the starting point for volunteering was to help meet their clients’ support needs through involving clients […]
Most heritage attractions work hard to increase the diversity and reach of their visitor offer. These efforts can also provide an opportunity to reach a more diverse group of potential volunteers. For example, outreach programmes provide an opportunity to raise awareness and potentially draw volunteers from community groups into the museum or heritage site itself. […]