Volunteer Centre Newcastle

Good practice

Volunteer Centre Newcastle is an accredited Volunteer Centre member of Volunteering England. Part of our role as a Volunteer Centre to promote and help develop good practice in volunteer management.

If you would like more information around areas of good practice, you can contact a member of the Volunteer Centre Newcastle team.

You may also wish to look at the Volunteering England good practice bank. If you join Volunteering England as a member you will have full instant access to all of their good practice information. For small, volunteer led groups with a small annual financial turnover membership to Volunteering England is free of charge.

If you are registered with Volunteer Centre Newcastle you can access our good practice information sheets in our Resources section.

If you have any queries relating to volunteering, why not look at the common questions for organisations section of this website to see some examples of how we answer good practice questions.

Here is a good practice guide for organisations wanting to recruit volunteers who are refugee or Asylum seekers: PACT – overcoming barriers to volunteering.

Leaflet for organisations supporting individuals to volunteer

This leaflet is aimed at organisations who support asylum seekers and refugees that are interested in volunteering within their new community: Working with volunteers from the refugee community.

Leaflet for refugees or asylum seekers who are interested in volunteering

This leaflet is aimed at asylum seekers and refugees who are interested in volunteering within their new community: A guide to volunteering for refugees and asylum seekers.

If you would like to share good practice information and/or network with other volunteer involving organisations you may want to join the Newcastle Volunteering Forum