Had a bit of a volunteer recruitment drive last month, which resulted in one person offering to volunteer for Help From Home. Many roles were put up on offer and the one this volunteer went for was to form partnerships with like minded organisations, who have the vision to integrate microvolunteering opportunities within the portfolio of services they offer.
The UK Government published it’s Giving White Paper in May. Help From Home compiled a response, which is available here to read. Basically the UK Government wants to promote a more flexible approach to volunteering that fits in with people’s lifestyles. Mircovolunteering certainly appears to have this flexible approach covered and our response highlights those areas in the White Paper where we are either already delivering or proposing to deliver on its aims.
Hot on the tails of last month’s research into the evidence of impact within the microvolunteering area. Help From Home is now conducting a survey about actual microvolunteers themselves. This will run for quite a few months and goes into the who, what, why, where and when of microvolunteers activities. As far as we know, the voluntary sector is starved of research into the microvolunteering arena, and we hope this survey will serve as a springboard for further research. Indeed, the UK based Institute of Volunteering Research has approached Help From Home with a view to being involved in a much larger research project whose aims have yet to be thrashed out. All that side, we would be grateful of your responses to our survey.
Til next time.
