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Kent UnionThe Students’ Union for the University of Kent
Steph Hughes and Suzanne Payne Volunteering Projects Coordinator
&Graduate Employability Coordinator
What is volunteering?
“…an activity that involves spending time, unpaid, doing something that aims to benefit the environment, individuals or groups other than close relatives”.
What counts as Volunteering?
Types of volunteering:Community volunteeringCommittee memberCourse repWelcome Week HelperStudent Led Volunteering GroupsStudent Ambassador
KSCV
Kent Student Certificate for Volunteering
www.kentunionvolunteering.co.uk
Finding a placement in the Community?
Use the ‘browse placements’
On this site you can view the various placements that are available, from sports, raise and give, media, working with local charities and many more
Or use a search engine such as Google or www.do-it.org
How to your log hours
1. Log into www.kentunionvolunteering.co.uk
2. Click on my profile
3. Click on my volunteering log
4. Add the date, activity and time volunteered – click add
KSCV Bronze
25 hours of volunteering
KSCV Silver
50 hours of volunteering 15 minute review with a
member of staff
KSCV Gold
100 volunteering hours Review 2 training sessions 750 words
KSCV Platinum
Credit bearing module (depending on your course)Complete 4 volunteering modules across a year
Community Volunteering (Compulsory)Project Leadership (Compulsory)
University VolunteeringCommittee RoleTraining and FacilitationMentoring
KSCV awards
KSCV awards
Helping others
There are 1700 volunteers registered and over 54,000 volunteering hours have been logged since June.
‘Students are highly valued as volunteers by organisations and are sought out for specific skills, knowledge and expertise’ (Bursting the Bubble, 2010)
Natalie – Leisure Development Co-ordinator SNAAP ‘Without volunteers many of our events would not be able to run as we would not be able to provide the support and care that individual children need’
What’s in it for you?
Make new friends
Improve your confidence
Gain new skills
Road test careers
Improve your job prospects and employability
Employability
As a result of feedback via student consultation and involvement it became evident that a method of collating experience and the skills gained would be invaluable in helping students to reflect on and record their activities and relate them to employability.
Kent Union are currently piloting an ‘Employability Toolkit’ - The toolkit is an ideal method of reflecting on any employment, volunteering and training undertaken and the skills that have been utilised.
Key Employability Categories
Communication
Team working
Planning/organisation
Leadership
Enterprise
Problem solving
Reflection
I.T skills
Positive attributes
Key Features
Paid and voluntary work
Kent Union and Non-Kent Union
Courses attended
Gaps in skills
Opportunities to develop your skills
Produces skills record
Stand Out training
One-off training sessions
Last between 1 and 2 hours
Delivered by Kent Union staff and in the future by students with particular areas of expertise
Linked to key skills identified in employability toolkit
Programme to be increased dramatically for the next academic year
Topics to be included in next year’s programme
First aid
Chairing meetings
Managing risks
Food Hygiene (online)
Health and safety
Leadership
Child protection
Using social media to prepare for graduate employment
Equality and Diversity
Over the summer the toolkit will be merged with the existing volunteering database to create one system.
Using this system students will also be able to -
- Identify a range of volunteering opportunities
- Log their volunteering hours
- Complete their KSCV review and submit a written reflection
- Book themselves on stand out training
- Record and evaluate any training they have attended
- Be contacted quickly and efficiently
The finalised toolkit will be launched in September
For further information
QUESTIONS?
