CAMINO HACIA EL VOLUNTARIADO- Tools for inclusive volunteering

Rationale

• Volunteering is becoming more short term in all European countries– This is a challenge both to the organisations that

offer volunteering opportunities and volunteers themselves

– The skills that are learnt in volunteering often require some sustainability

– At the same time, the benefits of volunteering are not accessed by many underrepresented groups.

Aim

• To develop sustainability in volunteering, specifically among underrepresented groups:– Early school leavers, migrants and people with

disabilities

• To collect and share good practice and to increase the partners’ understanding on the following volunteer sustainability issues:– Motivation, recruitment, support (mentoring &

rewarding)

Activities

• 3 partner meetings for exchanging views + working on the final products

• At home: identification of underrepresented groups and their volunteering needs, collection of good practice examples, work with learners on testing the tools in the toolkit.

• Preparation of final products.

Final products• Good practice case studies from different

European countries and differing volunteering contexts– Some in written form and a few as YouTube videos.

• Downloadable toolkit including the best practices and a couple of simple tools for volunteers & their supervisors.– One tool to help volunteers record learning and

achievements from short term volunteering activities in a way that helps them phrase these abilities e.g. in the Europass CV.

– Guidelines for volunteer support

Countries involved

• Finland, Ireland, Norway, Spain, Turkey, UK• 1-3 extra partners welcome!• Stefan Piskorski – Ireland • Seval Avci – Turkey • María Ballesteros- Spain• Ineke Due – Norway• Marion Fields – Finland• Richard Gresswell - UK