Volunteer CentreEast Dunbartonshire

Adrian Murtagh and Hannah Kennedy

Manager Volunteer Champion

Volunteer Centre East Dunbartonshire

Volunteer Centre East Volunteer Centre East DunbartonshireDunbartonshire

Adrian Murtagh – ManagerAdrian Murtagh – Manager

Hannah Kennedy – Volunteer Hannah Kennedy – Volunteer Champion Champion

StaffStaff

• Adrian Murtagh – Manager• Elaine Smith - Team Leader• Pam Thomson – Development Officer• Beverly Lockhart – Development Officer • Paul O’Kane - Development Officer • Neil Wotherspoon – Project Worker • Luisa Palmegiani – Schools Projects

Leader

Our VisionOur Vision• East Dunbartonshire is a place where

everyone is encouraged, enabled and has the opportunity to volunteer

• Volunteering is a recognised pathway to personal development, learning and employment

• The Volunteer Centre is respected and recognised as the Local Centre of Excellence

Working with Working with volunteersvolunteers

• Encourage everyone from our community to volunteer

• Match volunteers with opportunities• Support and encourage our

volunteers• Provide information and advice on

additional training

Working with Working with OrganisationsOrganisations

• Encourage them to engage in Moving Towards Excellence

• Promote good practice and provide training

• Highlight forthcoming events• Support and encourage them to

develop new opportunities

Volunteer Volunteer ChampionsChampions

• Overall aim: A team of pupils volunteering to

promote volunteering culture within a school environment

• Working together:• Turnbull High School and Volunteer

Centre East Dunbartonshire have piloted this concept

Target Audience Target Audience

• Any young person who would like to consider volunteering

• Teachers - employer supported volunteering

• For some pupils a one off volunteer opportunity is more rewarding

• Insurance issues under 16 years – pupils would be signposted to an internal volunteer opportunity or a group activity

Volunteer Volunteer ChampionsChampions

Volunteer Champions have : • Received training from the Volunteer Centre –

team building, project planning, marketing, presentation skills (5weeks) + additional training

• Shaped the structure and future developments of this project

• Participated in events to promote volunteering -school in-service days, presentations at parent Council

• Organise and create new volunteering opportunities within the school

Volunteer Volunteer ChampionsChampions

Volunteer Champions have:• Established an “internal market” for volunteering • Completed Volunteer Audits to register each

opportunity within the school • Encouraged others to volunteer • Helped pupils gain awards and recognition through

volunteering• Created a volunteering hub • Created publicity materials and influenced the

project’s development • Had Fun !!

Volunteer Volunteer ChampionsChampions

Volunteer Champions have got lots in return:

• Learned new skills • Made new friends• Feel more confident• Gained awards and recognition• Have valuable experience for further

education and employment • Gained experience of the voluntary

sector

Volunteer Volunteer ChampionsChampions

Tangled Web ! Parish-based volunteering !

Thumbs up For Volunteering ! Having Fun !

Volunteer Volunteer Champion Champion Hannah's Journey Hannah's Journey

• I have gained a lot from Volunteer Champions• Confidence through being involved in

presentations• Experience of running a project and I

helped recruit future Volunteer Champions • Received facilitator training• Through Volunteer Champions I have been

able to show people that they are volunteering even when they are doing things they enjoy.

New New Developments Developments

• Introduce Volunteer Champions to other

secondary schools • Pilot some work with a local primary school • Link learning and volunteering • Bring Volunteer Champions from different

schools together • Information sessions on how to “sell” your

Volunteer experience

Benefits for SchoolBenefits for School

• Partnership with a Voluntary Sector Organisation • Recognition of current volunteering activity• Better understanding of how volunteering fits into

Curriculum for Excellence• Raised profile for the school• New volunteering opportunities• Better understanding of safe and appropriate

external volunteering opportunities

How to reach How to reach us…us…

Volunteer Centre East Dunbartonshire 5 Dalrymple Court TownheadKirkintillochGlasgow G66 3AATel: 0141 578 6680

Email: adrian.murtagh@vced.org.ukWebsite: www.vced.org.uk

Workshop 2

Learner Journeys :

Sharing good practice and opportunities for partnership working within each local authority

Bryan Campbell, Learning and Teaching Scotland

Workshop 2 : Reflective Questions

By considering the discussions from the Learner Journeys Workshop, and the good practice presentations you have just heard, identify some key steps to address your key challenges, identified during the initial discussions this morning? How can you ensure that good quality, targeted information, advice and guidance (IAG) is provided to every young person making the school/post school transition?

 

Workshop 2 : Reflective Questions

Identify the steps you will take to further raise awareness of 16+ Learning Choices with other colleagues, your wider community, parents and most importantly with the young people you engage with? How can you ensure that your partnerships involve a wide range of organisations to fully support all young people? How are you ensuring that you can deliver the Senior Phase entitlements for vulnerable young people - including looked after young people and care leavers; those with learning disabilities; those involved in the justice system; young carers and interrupted learners?

 

Senior Phase Transition Roadshows

Bryan CampbellDevelopment Officer : More Choices, More Chances

Learning and Teaching Scotland