Volunteering resources
“Volunteers are all too often able to add something that cannot be delivered by paid staff, who need to maintain a professional distance.”
Baroness Neuberger (2009)
Volunteers play an important role for many organisations in the voluntary sector but they can be especially valuable for organisations working with offenders and ex-offenders.
Clinks works to promote volunteering in the Criminal Justice System and we have a variety of resources available to help, whether you are an established organisation already working with lots of volunteers or a new project looking to get started with them.
Volunteering guides
Clinks has produced a series of free guides to support organisations working with volunteers. The guides range from looking at how to recruit volunteers to how to run a peer support network. Please click here to see the full list of guides.
Evaluating the impact made by volunteers
If you already involve volunteers in your work, Clinks has adapted a series of evaluation tools specifically for use in organisations that work in the Criminal Justice System. This toolkit allows you to assess the difference that volunteering makes to your organisation and explore the positive and negative outcomes. For more information and to download the toolkit please click here.
Justice Involving Volunteers in Europe
Clinks leads the Justice Involving Volunteers in Europe (JIVE) project, a partnership of eight European non-governmental organisations sharing ideas and good practice around the role and value of volunteers working with (ex) offenders. The project has so far published two reports and a series of newsletters, and will publish further resources in April including a good practice guide on the recruitment, selection and training of volunteers. See here for further information on the project.
Valuing Volunteering
The Valuing Volunteering project looks at what makes for ‘good’ volunteering in prisons and will publish a report on the current state of volunteering in May. Read Project Manager Ben Jarman's blog post on the unique contribution of volunteers in prison here.
Just Mentoring
One of the key roles often fulfilled by volunteers is that of a mentor. You can advertise for any volunteer mentoring opportunities you have on our Just Mentoring vacancies board, and you can also promote your mentoring services for free on the Just Mentoring directory. Please click here to see more about Just Mentoring.
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