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How to make the most of the European Year of Volunteering 2011
Steve Crocker
Year of Volunteering Co ordinator
Leeds City [email protected]
www.leedsyearofvolunteering.org.uk
Aims of LYOV2010• Increase the level of volunteering in the city
by a quarter• celebrate and promote volunteering• to increase the level of community
engagement through volunteering• to help groups attract more volunteers and
provide more volunteering opportunities and to promote a higher quality volunteering.
The Partnership• Leeds City Council• Voluntary Action Leeds • Leeds Ahead• NHS Leeds• Universities• Yorkshire Forward • Environment Agency
• First Direct, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Yorkshire Bank • Safer Leeds• Leeds City College• Leeds Community Foundation
Narrowing the gap?Leeds households undertaking volunteering 2009
Programme • February : Volunteering for health and wellbeing• March : Volunteering in every neighbourhood • April : Volunteering across the generations • May : Volunteering for literacy and learning • June : Valuing volunteering in Leeds • July : Volunteering for leisure, sports, arts and culture • August : Volunteering for environment, parks and wildlife • September : Volunteering for a safer Leeds
• October : Volunteering for all • November : Children and young people’s volunteering
How has it gone so far?
• Launch of Year of Volunteering@Leeds City Museum • Opened Volunteer Centre Leeds@ 12 St Paul's Street LS1 2lE• Website set up: www.leedsyearofvolunteering.co.uk• 100 events during the year with over 6000 people attending• Leeds Volunteering Debates• Environmental taster scheme to reclaim an a derelict site• Three “award” schemes, 60 organisations helped. • Month long celebrations• Revised Compact for Leeds signed • Quality volunteering encouraged: with a volunteering kite mark,
toolkit and training programmes for volunteer co ordinators.
European Year of Volunteering 2011
• Key Priorities
• Removing barriers to volunteering • Promoting benefits of volunteering to local communities• Highlight best practice in Volunteer Management• Promoting Employer Supported Volunteering
• Bi monthly themes• January and February: poverty and homelessness, covering disability, poverty and ex
offenders• March and April: supporting young people and children• May and June: environment• July and August: sport (looking forward to London 2012)• September and October: culture and the arts• November and December: health and wellbeing
Leeds EYOV11 Conference
• Hosted by Leeds City Council with our Leeds partners and with our twin cities
• Share learning and best practice from the Leeds Year of Volunteering and elsewhere.
• 25 delegates from 4 European countries (Seigen and Dortmund in Germany, Lille in France, Brno in Czech Republic and Brazov in Romania) to visit Leeds
• Leeds organisations, with the European Commission and Volunteering England to speak
• Leeds organisations host and link with our twin city volunteer partners
European Year in Leeds
• Each theme to have a taster project, celebratory event and marketplace
• Voluntary sector led
• Funding from Big Lottery
• Theme leads from key local organisations
• Focus on Strategic role of Volunteering
• ESV within Leeds City Council
Learning
• Time to set up
• Partnership
• Commitment from all parties
• Involvement of key services
• Funding
• Clear aims
• Involve as many volunteers as possible!
"Your livelihood is what you are given, your life is what you give"
John Sentamu, October 2010
Broader Discussion Questions
• Will the voluntary sector become the volunteering sector?
• Will volunteering become compulsory?
• Can volunteering step forward as the public sector steps back?