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Volunteering is a mutually agreed and balanced exchange between the individual volunteer and the orgnaistion with which the volunteer is placed. This presenttion look at some of the implications of this relaltionship and explores how this can be supported.
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Changing Face of Volunteering
Tacking Inequality of Opportunity
Building Social Cohesion
Psychological Contract
• Definition
'…the perceptions of the two parties, employee and employer, of what their mutual obligations are towards each other'1 – informal and imprecise– may be inferred – based on mutual
understanding of fairness and trust
Motivations
Altruistic • Belief based • Externally focussed• Enduring • Dynamic
Instrumental • Verifiable • Measurable• Transitory• Achievable
‘The Values Balance’
AmbitionSuccessMoneyPrestigeStressReward
External Values
Self awareness Self esteem
Being the real meCaring for
Self ImprovementEducation
Internal Self Values
Influential Changes
• The nature of employment
• Changes in the resources on offer
• Changes in client /funders expectations
• Increased importance of human capital
• Fluid organisational structures
• Distance from decision makers
What does it all add up to?
• Practices do not stand still
• Legislative changes • Increase costs of
checking and vetting• Valued volunteering
programmes • Budgeted volunteering
programmes
Diary Dates
Tuesday 23rd September V involved Volunteer Co-ordinators Forum
Thursday 25th SeptemberEaling CVS AGM – St. John’s Mattock Lane
Thursday 20th NovemberWest London Volunteering Conference GSK
Thursday 27th November Volunteer Co-ordinators Pain Clinic
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