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Keep Your Volunteers Guide

The Volunteer Centre Western Isles is pleased to present its Good Practice Guide book for Volunteer involving Organisations. Full of local photos of volunteers in action and tips on volunteer involvement including "why we volunteer" "the importance of thankyou" "the new volunteer and "the nuts and bolts of volunteer involvement. The Guide book is free to download here or you can request a hard copy from your local Volunteer centre. We hope you will find it a useful tool in reviewing or developing your volunteer involvement procedures. Keep your Volunteers Guide

Western Isles Award for Volunteering Excellence (WAVE) Organisation Standards

We now offer a new quality standard award for organisations who involve volunteers. The WAVE (Western Isles Award for Volunteering Excellence) is based on simple self assessment form which looks at an organisations policies and procedures for involving volunteers. Staff at the Volunteer Centre are on hand to help with the self assessment and provide support in meeting the ten standards. For the bigger organisations the WAVE can be used as a stepping stone to the more comprehensive Investors in Volunteers. The award is completely free and there are no charges for the support given by the Volunteer Centre. WAVE for Organisations FLYER

WAVE for Organisations SELF ASSESSMENT BOOKLET

MV Award (for 16 -25 Year olds)

The MV awards provide young volunteers between the ages of 16-25 with the opportunity to gain official recognition for their voluntary work. MV Award certificates are presented when volunteers have completed 50 and 100 hours of volunteering and at 200 hours there is an Award of Excellence signed personally by the First Minister no less! As well as recognising achievements and contribution, the MV Award is a valuable addition to any CV!

MV timesheet

MV registration form

WAVE Award for under 16's

The WAVE under 16's AWARD was developed locally to provide young volunteers not yet old enough to register for the MV award the opportunity to gain official recognition for their voluntary work. WAVE Award certificates are presented when volunteers have completed 25, 50 and 100 hours of volunteering.

Information and registration Booklet

Additional timesheets

Sample Policies and Procedures

We are currently in the process of collating and cataloging our samples so they can be downloaded from here. In the meantime if you requires anything specific please get in touch with the Stornoway office on 01851 700366.

Library List

We are currently in the process of collating and cataloging our library of publications and resources for lending purposes. A full list of our current library catalogue will be available from here shortly. If you can not see what you are looking for, please let us know. If it is something that may be of use to others we may be able to purchase a copy for you.

Library List