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Looking for Volunteers

Opportunities

Promoting Volunteering Opportunities

Whether you are a charity, community group, social enterprise or public sector body, Volunteer Cornwall can help you find the volunteers you need for your organisation. We have put together a directory of volunteering opportunities that allows for anyone looking to get into volunteering activities to quickly and easily find something that matches their interests and availability.

This system is entirely free to use by both volunteers looking for activities, and organisations or groups looking to promote their opportunities.

There is no cost involved with us promoting your volunteering activities.

The directory lists all currently active volunteering opportunities that have been uploaded with the most recently added activities always being displayed at the top, the directory can then be filtered by the following criteria:

  • Location
  • Type of Activity
  • Days

Volunteers are also able to search for specific words that appear in a volunteering opportunity's title/description.

To get started and share your volunteering opportunities on our platform, you'll need to first register your organisation with us (you can do this online). This is a one-time process and once approved by one of our admins, you can place as many volunteer opportunities as you need filled.

If you need a bit of help with using the platform or would like to learn more about how we can help to promote your volunteering opportunities, you can speak with our Digital Support Officer by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or calling 01872 265307.


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How to Recruit Volunteers

Top Five Tips for Recruiting & Keeping Volunteers

Most of the host organisations we recruit volunteers for are always on the look out for more volunteers. So how can you boost your chances of being the cause or charity someone chooses to donate their time to? Here are our Top 5 Tips:

1) Make your ad stand out. Remember you are competing with hundreds of good causes and thousands of volunteering placements. Ask someone not associated with your cause to read your volunteer ad and give honest feedback – does it entice them?

2) Keep it flexible. The more flexibility you can offer with things like times and roles, the more people will be interested in applying. Have you considered allowing volunteers to set their own times or volunteer from home, for example?

3) Be clear about the benefits of volunteering with your organisation. What do you offer? Do you pay travel expenses, provide lunch or refreshments, allow volunteers to have a say in the running of the task?

4) Give your volunteers feedback. Offer individual appraisals to talk about how they are getting on but try and focus too on what difference they are making. That’s why people volunteer, after all.

5) Recognise and reward your volunteers. Certificates to recognise a volunteers efforts or just the occasional “thank you” can make the difference between a volunteer staying put or moving on. Why not nominate your volunteers for one of the local or national volunteering awards? 


Advice & Guidance

Volunteer Cornwall is the volunteering charity for Cornwall. Part of our role is to support voluntary, community and public sector organisations to find volunteers.

The benefits of engaging with volunteers are well known but you may not be aware of the range of help and advice we are able to offer:

  • Targeting your marketing at the right audience
  • Composing your volunteer role description
  • Help with promoting your volunteering opportunities, through social media and our community networks
  • Advise on how best to market your opportunities

We already support over 1000 Voluntary and community groups across the county offering continued support to fill their volunteer placements. Additionally we have a range of projects and schemes that can offer extra support for particular client groups (such as those looking to return to work or with learning disabilities).

Our brokerage service will act as a point of liaison; even if you want to advertise and recruit from the whole of Cornwall you will still have a single point of contact – call us on 01872 266988 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

We have staff in East, Mid and West Cornwall that are able to meet and offer support on an appointment basis.


Training

Our Training Team work with individuals and organisations to meet individual training needs with cost effective and appropriate options. We deliver high-quality training in a range of subject areas using enthusiastic and passionate tutors.

We have been delivering Volunteer Management qualifications since 2012 and now deliver the ILM Level 3 & 4 qualifications in Leadership & Management. We also continue to offer a range of solutions ranging from half-day good practice sessions and workshops through to nationally accredited courses.

We are happy to offer a free consultation meeting to provide you with a no obligation training solution.  Call 01872 266987 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

What you can expect from us
  • Excellent pass rates
  • Enthusiastic and passionate trainers
  • A relaxed but professional environment
  • Accredited courses with highly regarded awarding bodies
  • Tailored solutions for your individual or organisational training needs
  • Extensive training experience
  • Excellent learner feedback
  • Solutions for funding bids with a training delivery plan
  • Advice in relation to meeting funding outputs and what training can be put in place

Whatever your training requirements please give us a call on 01872 266987. 

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