The Future of Volunteering: Challenges, Opportunities, and Vision
Explore the future of volunteering, including local perspectives, challenges, opportunities, and a vision for a diverse, innovative, and equitable volunteering landscape. Dive into key themes such as awareness, power, equity, collaboration, and experimentation to reflect on and improve volunteering practices in your organization.
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The Future of Volunteering
Setting the scene: what does volunteering look like locally?
What are the challenges and opportunities around volunteering in the local area and your organisation?
The Vision for Volunteering is a movement to create a diverse, innovative, ambitious, equitable and person-centred future for volunteering.
The Vision for Volunteering tackles five key themes: (see guidance sheets) Awareness and appreciation Power Equity and inclusion Collaboration Experimentation
What do these themes mean to you, in relation to volunteering in your organisation?
Plot and plan Using the graphs, plot your current volunteering situation.
Awareness and Appreciation Everyone volunteers Noone volunteers Feel appreciated Feel underappreciated
Power Feel powerful Feel powerless Are led Are leading
Equity and Inclusion Equitable Inequitable Inaccessible Accessible
Experimentation Innovative Traditional Rigid and bureaucratic Flexible and trusting
Collaboration Highly collaborative Uncollaborative Top-down approach Community-led approach
What is the best way to move this forward?
What first steps will you take to start working towards the actions you have identified? Who needs to be involved in conversations? How can you ensure that volunteers are at the centre of discussions?
What inspires you about the future of volunteering?
Find out more Sign up to the mailing list: visionforvolunteering.org.uk/newsletter Twitter: @VisionForVol Instagram: @VisionForVolunteering Facebook: facebook.com/visionforvolunteering LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/vision-for-volunteering Get in touch: visionforvolunteering.org.uk/contact-us
