As the Volunteer Centre for the London Borough of Bromley, Community Links Bromley provides support to volunteer-involving organisations and provides volunteering advice for residents.
- We can support you through offering volunteer management advice and promoting your organisation's volunteer roles via our online volunteer database.
- We deliver bitesize volunteer management workshops/training throughout the year
- We deliver volunteer management forums, where you will have the opportunity to network with other Volunteer Managers, share ideas and best practice.
- We host an annual volunteer awards ceremony to celebrate Bromley's volunteers.
- We host volunteer involvement fairs - a perfect way for organisations to meet potential volunteers.
Introducing: The Best Practice Clinic
Welcome to the Best Practice Clinic – your new regular spotlight on practical volunteer management.
We’ll share bite-sized tips, tools, and ideas to support your work with volunteers – from DBS to digital roles, supervision to safeguarding, micro-volunteering to recognition.
Whether you’re new to managing volunteers or a seasoned pro, this space is for you – to learn, reflect, and try out new approaches that make a difference.
Corporate volunteering
We are reaching out to let you know that we have corporate volunteers available to support your organisation on an ad-hoc basis. We have started to receive enquiries from corporate teams who are eager to participate in practical volunteering activities. These teams are available to help with a variety of practical tasks as needed.
Whether it's gardening, painting, clean-ups, sorting, or other hands-on tasks, our corporate volunteers are willing and ready to lend a hand. If you have any ad-hoc projects or tasks that need doing over the coming months, please do get in touch with us at vdm@communitylinksbromley.org.uk. We would love to connect you with these enthusiastic corporates.
We were thrilled to see a fantastic team from One Savings Bank (OSB) Group roll up their sleeves and spend the day volunteering at Leonard Cheshire Care Home, in June 2025; the team made a real impact and brought smiles to residents and staff alike! Check them out below:
Resources
- Reach Volunteering guide on How to recruit volunteers with skills
- Government guidance: Volunteer opportunities, rights and expenses
- Volunteer Management Toolkit launched by Get Out Get Active, in partnership with Volunteering Matters; toolkit provides organisations with a step-by-step guide to building and inclusive and accessible volunteer programme.
- Understanding local patterns of volunteer activity during COVID-19 (research paper)
This research, commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and conducted by The Young Foundation, seeks to improve understanding of the ways in which volunteers were mobilised at local authority levels in England during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the overarching aim to support future policy development on volunteering.