The Supporting Volunteers Award (SVA) from VANEL is a quality accreditation that lets your volunteers know that you have their best interests in mind and are committed to their volunteering journey.\u00a0 As an independently verified self-assessment process, SVA also gives you the chance to find out what you\u2019re doing well and to tighten up on your volunteer hosting practices where things can be improved.<\/p>\n
The voluntary organisations that have been through our SVA accreditation all say that the benefits have been huge.\u00a0 Doing SVA helps you find gaps in your processes, review your approach, put better practices in place and generally ensure that your volunteers get the best support from you that you can give.<\/p>\n
SVA comes in in two flavours: SVA level 1 is a self-assessment process which VANEL verifies and it demonstrates your commitment to a quality volunteering journey.\u00a0 SVA level 2 assesses in more depth looking at additional areas of quality practice and involving your volunteers themselves in confirming your volunteer hosting approach works.<\/p>\n
And the purpose of SVA is to help you improve your approach where necessary. So VANEL will help provide you with support and resources so that you can develop your processes in order to achieve SVA.\u00a0 No one \u2018fails\u2019 SVA \u2013 it might just be that your policies, processes and practices need work before you can meet the SVA standard.\u00a0 Working towards and achieving SVA is an important process in itself.<\/p>\n
SVA level 1 costs a maximum of \u00a3150 for voluntary sector organisations. If you\u2019re a VANEL member or a Volunteer Development Service (VDS) member then the SVA price is discounted so you\u2019ll never pay more than \u00a3150.\u00a0 At the end of your assessment you\u2019ll be able to show the SVA logo and display your award proudly.\u00a0 Volunteers referred to an SVA accredited organisation will immediately know that your systems and processes are in place to support them.<\/p>\n
Everything about the Supporting Volunteers Award is explained on our website www.supportingvolunteers.org.uk<\/a>. And if you\u2019d like to understand more you can talk through SVA with Liz Dugard or Karl Elliott at VANEL (liz@vanel.org.uk<\/a> or karl@vanel.org.uk<\/a> or 01472 231123).\u00a0 An expression of interest form is also available from the website.<\/p>\n If you host volunteers then you really need to consider SVA.\u00a0 Get in touch with VANEL for a conversation today and get started towards SVA.<\/p>\n\n The Supporting Volunteers Award (SVA) from VANEL is a quality accreditation that lets your volunteers know that you have their best interests in mind and are committed to their volunteering journey. As an independently verified self-assessment process, SVA also gives you the chance to find out what you\u2019re doing well and to tighten up on your volunteer hosting practices where things can be improved. So if you host volunteers you should learn more about SVA. Read on the understand why SVA is important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[542],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-5l5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20529,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20527\/revisions\/20529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}