Downloads

Volunteering Awards 2012

Nomination forms can be downloaded here.

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 thank you" "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

Saltire Award (for 16 -25 Year olds)

Saltire Awards are the new Scottish awards designed to formally recognise the commitment and contribution of youth volunteering to voluntary organisations.

Supported by the Scottish Government the Saltire Awards enable young volunteers to record the skills, experience and learning gained through successful volunteering placements provided by local and national voluntary agencies.

The Awards are split in to four sections - The Challenge, The Approach, The Ascent and The Summit and achievement is recognised in the form of Saltire Award certificates and Young Scot reward points.

Saltire Awards are designed to encourage, enable and reward youth volunteering and to make it easy for organisations to support young people to take part.

organisation registration form

volunteer registration form

volunteer timesheet

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