My initial notes on ways forward with the 7days4stow initiative: Walthamstow residents taking micro actions to help relieve the pressures people living in Walthamstow will face in 2013. Food banks, nightshelters, challenging legal loan sharks and more. More info about the project here. Possible Actions: Lobbying council to stop closure of this day … Continue reading #7days4stow: Ideas
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Thoughts on getting involved and working for change, from me and others
I'm working on a project for Greater London Volunteering: creating a set of tools (and guide of how to use them) that help us measure how well volunteer involvement in our groups is doing. The aim: it will enable us all to be more clear about the good so we can shout about it, and … Continue reading Evaluation tools: Keeping track of involvement
What is Volunteering? What she says. This is bang on. It's simple, it's really stupid simple why I feel like volunteering is the key to pretty much everything. " I’ve found that I’ve been able to bridge gaps. Gaps between classes, ages, races, gender, location…" This is Social Capital. Cross-cutting ties. Whatever you want to … Continue reading Stories of a Young Volunteer
Your volunteers achieve a lot, overcome a lot, and learn a lot through their volunteering. You want to show them and your organisation how much is gained. or maybe you’ve found some possible funding for supporting the volunteering part of what you do, but you’ve never put into words before just what people get from … Continue reading Demonstrating the Value of your Volunteer Programme
This week I'm finally trying to crack a training problem I've had for a while - explaining How Everything Works in the UK in one simple slide... I've felt I've needed it as part of lots of different course objectives: Putting people at ease about their own knowledge Explaining where Funding comes from Being clear … Continue reading Explaining How Everything Works…
(Originally posted on ivo.org as part of the Thoughtful Thursdays support network for volunteer managers) I train people in volunteer management, and am also part of a workers' co-op that grows and sells food. I have for a while been noticing differences in these two work spaces I inhabit: whilst volunteers are involved in both … Continue reading Social Mission, Sustainable Enterprise AND Great Volunteers?
Worth saving. So I've popped it here. listen to ‘Mitch Benn on housing benefit cuts’ on Audioboo
Rebecca Tully 
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