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 will be hosting volunteer involvement fairs – this will be a combination of on-line and face to face. These fairs are a perfect way for organisations to meet potential volunteers.
Volunteers' Week Volunteering Fair 2024
Wednesday, 5th June 2024 (11am - 3pm) at Hope Church, The Walnuts Shopping Centre, Orpington
Calling all Bromley charities and organisations!
Volunteers' Week is a chance to celebrate the amazing impact volunteers have on our community.
Our Volunteering Fair is the perfect platform to:
- Increase awareness of your organisation and the valuable work you do.
- Connect with potential volunteers who are passionate about your cause.
- Network with other organisations.
This is a fantastic opportunity to expand your volunteer base and make a bigger difference in Bromley!
Spaces are limited, so let faym@communitylinksbromley.org.uk know by 1st May 2024
2024 Volunteer Appreciation Station!
Volunteers' Week is coming up (3rd – 9th June)! It's time to celebrate the incredible people who make a real difference.
We're thrilled to bring back our popular Volunteer Appreciation Station!
We'll be creating short video messages where organisations can express their gratitude to their volunteers.
Want to show your volunteers how much you appreciate them?
Just email faym@communitylinksbromley.org.uk by 26th April 2024 and we'll schedule a day and time to film a quick video message from your organisation.
Together, let's create a heartwarming tribute that shines a spotlight on your amazing volunteers!
FREE help for an Organisation or Community Group
We have a team of corporate volunteers who want to ‘get down and dirty’ and support an organisation/group with some physical volunteering in June.
Do you need help with gardening, tidying, painting, events, sorting etc. If you could do with some help – please do email faym@communitylinksbromley.org.uk for more information.
Volunteer Manager’s Forum Survey
Community Links Bromley would like to hear your thoughts about our Volunteer Manager’s Forums.
Our forums aim to provide an opportunity to discuss issues that you may experience whilst managing volunteers, exchange ideas and get support and advice.
With this in mind we have a short survey for you to tell us what you would like the forums to look like for 2023.
The survey should only take over 1 minute to complete – please click here for survey.
Resources
- Reach Volunteering guide on How to recruit volunteers with skills
- Government guidance on enabling safe and effective volunteering during coronavirus here (for organisations)
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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.
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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.
Help us improve our services to volunteer involving organisations
For several years CLB has hosted Bromley's Volunteer Co-ordinators' Network which is a forum for individuals who recruit, supervise or manage volunteers.
CLB wants to review this forum to ensure it still meets the needs of its members and we would really appreciate it if you could complete this short survey:
Your input could make a difference to how the Network is structured in the future and the subject matters that are discussed and shared.
If you have any queries e-mail faym@communitylinksbromley.org.uk.