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Managing and retaining volunteers

Last updated: 30 July 2020 
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How to effectively manage and retain volunteers within your organisation.

What is this guide and who is it for?

Managing your volunteers effectively and providing them with adequate support will help you retain them.

These resource will give you key tips and guidelines on volunteer management, ranging from supervision to safeguarding to writing a volunteer policy.

These resources will be useful to anybody responsible for working with volunteers.

What will I learn?

  • The risk of treating volunteers as employees
  • Supervising and supporting volunteers
  • Volunteer feedback
  • The role of the volunteer coordinator
  • Writing a Volunteer policy
  • The secrets to ensuring your volunteers stay with your organisation.
  • Safeguarding
  • Guidance on Volunteer agreements
Managing and retaining volunteers

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