Resources for Volunteer-Involving Organisations
Explore a range of useful resources and see how you can further develop your organisation’s volunteer engagement.
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Southern Volunteering Resources
GENERAL:
Writing a Volunteer Position Description
This A4 info sheet outlines how to write an engaging volunteer position description. By creating clear, detailed and attention-grabbing position descriptions, you can greatly improve the number of volunteer applications you receive.
What Insurance is Needed for Volunteers?
This A4 factsheet outlines the two types of insurance policies necessary for your organisation to appropriately cover volunteers.
Community Events: Protecting Your Organisation and Your Volunteers
Hosting events in your local community is a fantastic way to connect with community members, promote your services, and raise your organisation’s profile. Proper risk management and insurance coverage are essential for safe and successful events.
Supporting & Protecting Volunteers Working Alone, Off-Site
This booklet has been created for Volunteer Managers of community based, lone-working
volunteers. It outlines tools and techniques that can be utilised to ensure volunteers are supported and protected whilst carrying out their role. Developed in partnership with Freddy Match.
Palliative Care: A Guide for ACWS Volunteers
This booklet has been created for volunteers in the national Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme. Whilst volunteering for ACVVS the person the volunteer is visiting may experience a life-limiting illness. This resource can be given to the volunteer to help them navigate these circumstances and continue to provide appropriate social and emotional support.
Writing a Volunteer Position Description
This A4 info sheet outlines how to write an engaging volunteer position description. By creating clear, detailed and attention-grabbing position descriptions, you can greatly improve the number of volunteer applications you receive.
What Insurance is Needed for Volunteers?
This A4 factsheet outlines the two types of insurance policies necessary for your organisation to appropriately cover volunteers.
Community Events: Protecting Your Organisation and Your Volunteers
Hosting events in your local community is a fantastic way to connect with community members, promote your services, and raise your organisation’s profile. Proper risk management and insurance coverage are essential for safe and successful events.
Supporting & Protecting Volunteers Working Alone, Off-Site
This booklet has been created for Volunteer Managers of community based, lone-working
volunteers. It outlines tools and techniques that can be utilised to ensure volunteers are supported and protected whilst carrying out their role. Developed in partnership with Freddy Match.
Palliative Care: A Guide for ACWS Volunteers
This booklet has been created for volunteers in the national Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme. Whilst volunteering for ACVVS the person the volunteer is visiting may experience a life-limiting illness. This resource can be given to the volunteer to help them navigate these circumstances and continue to provide appropriate social and emotional support.
diversity, accessibility & inclusion
Customised Volunteering
This booklet outlines the concept of customised volunteering. This is the practice of adapting a volunteer position to better suit the needs, strengths, abilities and interests of the individual volunteer. This is beneficial not only for volunteers who face barriers to participation, but also as a general strategy to promote greater volunteer retention.
Supporting Social Connections
This booklet explores the process of establishing new social connections, as it relates to volunteer managers welcome and integrating new volunteers. By better understanding how the process of socialisation works, you can help your volunteers feel welcome and like they belong.
Creating Welcoming Volunteer Teams Through Appropriate Conversation
This booklet has been created in response to requests from Volunteer Managers around how to educate their volunteer teams on what is and isn’t appropriate behaviour and conversation within volunteer teams.
The booklet highlights the important part conversation plays in buliding an inclusive, welcoming volunteer environment.
Volunteers & Criminal Records
This information sheet will look at when screenings and checks are required, and provide some considerations for reviewing your volunteer’s information.
Youth-Friendly Volunteering Toolkit
The aims of this toolkit are to increase youth-friendliness in volunteering, in addition to increasing safe participation and recognition of young people to support causes and organisations.
Orana: Volunteerability
Volunteerability is a fantastic online toolkit full of resources, information and training materials to ensure that your organisation’s practices are inclusive and accessible, with a focus on supporting people with disability.
Supporting LGBTIQA+ Volunteers
Volunteer Managers play an important role in inclusion, and can help make their volunteer programs safe and supportive for all volunteers. This resource will explore how LGBTIQA+ inclusivity can be incorporated at every stage of the volunteer engagement process.
Engaging Neurodivergent Volunteers
This booklet explains what neurodivergence is and offers helpful information for Volunteer Managers to support and integrate neurodivergent volunteers into their volunteering programs.
Engaging Volunteers with Hidden Disabilities
This booklet explains about hidden disabilities and highlights practical ways for Volunteer Managers to support volunteers living with hidden disabilities in their volunteering programs.
Customised Volunteering
This booklet outlines the concept of customised volunteering. This is the practice of adapting a volunteer position to better suit the needs, strengths, abilities and interests of the individual volunteer. This is beneficial not only for volunteers who face barriers to participation, but also as a general strategy to promote greater volunteer retention.
Supporting Social Connections
This booklet explores the process of establishing new social connections, as it relates to volunteer managers welcome and integrating new volunteers. By better understanding how the process of socialisation works, you can help your volunteers feel welcome and like they belong.
Creating Welcoming Volunteer Teams Through Appropriate Conversation
This booklet has been created in response to requests from Volunteer Managers around how to educate their volunteer teams on what is and isn’t appropriate behaviour and conversation within volunteer teams.
The booklet highlights the important part conversation plays in buliding an inclusive, welcoming volunteer environment.
Volunteers & Criminal Records
This information sheet will look at when screenings and checks are required, and provide some considerations for reviewing your volunteer’s information.
Youth-Friendly Volunteering Toolkit
The aims of this toolkit are to increase youth-friendliness in volunteering, in addition to increasing safe participation and recognition of young people to support causes and organisations.
Orana: Volunteerability
Volunteerability is a fantastic online toolkit full of resources, information and training materials to ensure that your organisation’s practices are inclusive and accessible, with a focus on supporting people with disability.
Supporting LGBTIQA+ Volunteers
Volunteer Managers play an important role in inclusion, and can help make their volunteer programs safe and supportive for all volunteers. This resource will explore how LGBTIQA+ inclusivity can be incorporated at every stage of the volunteer engagement process.
Engaging Neurodivergent Volunteers
This booklet explains what neurodivergence is and offers helpful information for Volunteer Managers to support and integrate neurodivergent volunteers into their volunteering programs.
Engaging Volunteers with Hidden Disabilities
This booklet explains about hidden disabilities and highlights practical ways for Volunteer Managers to support volunteers living with hidden disabilities in their volunteering programs.
Key Resources
The National Standards for Volunteer Involvement
A comprehensive framework to guide, evaluate and further develop effective volunteer involvement strategies within volunteer involving organisations.
The National Strategy for Volunteering 2023 – 2033
The National Strategy for Volunteering (2023–2033) is a ten-year blueprint for a reimagined future for volunteering in Australia.
It is the first National Strategy for Volunteering in a decade, providing a strategic framework for enabling safe, supported, and sustainable volunteering.
The Volunteering Strategy for South Australia
2021 – 2027
The Volunteering Strategy for South Australia aims to improve the experience of volunteers, enhance outcomes for volunteering involving organisations and supports SA to reach a high volunteer participation rate.
Volunteering Gateway
Find resources and tools to help you recruit, train, inspire, maintain, and retain volunteers and enable your organisation and its volunteers to thrive. An initiative of Volunteering Australia.
A Guide to Work Health & Safety for Volunteer Organisations
This guide provides information on how the model work health and safety (WHS) laws apply to organisations that engage volunteers.
The National Standards for Volunteer Involvement
A comprehensive framework to guide, evaluate and further develop effective volunteer involvement strategies within volunteer involving organisations.
The National Strategy for Volunteering 2023 – 2033
The National Strategy for Volunteering (2023–2033) is a ten-year blueprint for a reimagined future for volunteering in Australia.
It is the first National Strategy for Volunteering in a decade, providing a strategic framework for enabling safe, supported, and sustainable volunteering.
The Volunteering Strategy for South Australia 2021 – 2027
The Volunteering Strategy for South Australia aims to improve the experience of volunteers, enhance outcomes for volunteering involving organisations and supports SA to reach a high volunteer participation rate.
Volunteering Gateway
Find resources and tools to help you recruit, train, inspire, maintain, and retain volunteers and enable your organisation and its volunteers to thrive. An initiative of Volunteering Australia.
A Guide to Work Health & Safety for Volunteer Organisations
This guide provides information on how the model work health and safety (WHS) laws apply to organisations that engage volunteers.
Free Training Resources
Diversity & Discrimination
While this training is designed for employers, much of the information is relevant to volunteer managers. It includes useful information, video resources and reflection tools to explore the concepts of diversity and discrimination, as well as evaluate how inclusive your organisation is, and identify areas of potential development.
Inclusive Service Standards
This series of online modules provides a valuable overview of the Inclusive Service Standards for promoting diversity and inclusion within organisational policies and practices. While it was developed for the aged-care sector, the resource, tools and information are applicable to any organisation.
Free Disability Awareness Sessions
Volunteerability’s disability awareness sessions are free and designed for volunteers and/or staff in an organisation that involves volunteers. Co-designed and facilitated by people with disability the sessions will help increase confidence, skills and knowledge to promote inclusion. Sessions can be tailored to meet your organisation’s needs.
Share Our Pride
This is a comprehensive online resource which walks the user through an in-depth of First Nations peoples’ culture, history, experiences and values. It also provides useful advice as to how to engage with First Nations peoples in a respectful and positive way.
Diversity & Discrimination
While this training is designed for employers, much of the information is relevant to volunteer managers. It includes useful information, video resources and reflection tools to explore the concepts of diversity and discrimination, as well as evaluate how inclusive your organisation is, and identify areas of potential development.
Inclusive Service Standards
This series of online modules provides a valuable overview of the Inclusive Service Standards for promoting diversity and inclusion within organisational policies and practices. While it was developed for the aged-care sector, the resource, tools and information are applicable to any organisation.
Free Disability Awareness Sessions
Volunteerability’s disability awareness sessions are free and designed for volunteers and/or staff in an organisation that involves volunteers. Co-designed and facilitated by people with disability the sessions will help increase confidence, skills and knowledge to promote inclusion. Sessions can be tailored to meet your organisation’s needs.
Share Our Pride
This is a comprehensive online resource which walks the user through an in-depth of First Nations peoples’ culture, history, experiences and values. It also provides useful advice as to how to engage with First Nations peoples in a respectful and positive way.
Southern Volunteering also offers a range of fee-for-service training opportunities delivered through our colleagues at Northern Volunteering, for both volunteers and staff.
Capacity Building & Development
Digital Transformation Hub
Available to Australian not-for-profits to increase (or build) digital capabilities, better deliver your services and support your team.
The Hub brings together practical guides, technology discounts specifically for not-for-profits and tailored advice to help your organisation create an even greater impact.
Canva for Nonprofits
Apply for a free Canva Premium account available for nonprofit organisations. Canva makes graphic-design easy, with access to 1000s of templates, photos, illustrations, and design tools.
Key Legal Considerations for VIOs
A comprehensive summary of all legal documents, requirements and considerations for not-for-profit organisations.
Digital Transformation Hub
Available to Australian not-for-profits to increase (or build) digital capabilities, better deliver your services and support your team.
The Hub brings together practical guides, technology discounts specifically for not-for-profits and tailored advice to help your organisation create an even greater impact.
Canva for Nonprofits
Apply for a free Canva Premium account available for nonprofit organisations. Canva makes graphic-design easy, with access to 1000s of templates, photos, illustrations, and design tools.
Key Legal Considerations for VIOs
A comprehensive summary of all legal documents, requirements and considerations for not-for-profit organisations.
GET IN TOUCH
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