Next week is the annual Volunteers’ Week once again. (2nd-8th June 2025). All the information about the week is online here.
If you’re an organisation that includes volunteers as part of your team, then next week is Volunteers’ Week and it’s a great time to say a big thank you to those who support you for free!
Perhaps use next week to do something different for your volunteers. Or we’d suggest that many volunteers are often overlooked – such as your committee members/trustees who are also volunteers – should be thanked.
All about Volunteers’ Week here.
VANEL will be posting updates during Volunteers’ Week on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/volunteergy). Our Volunteer Managers Network members will be doing their own things for Volunteers’ Week so we’ll make sure we’re sharing them.
VANEL still supports local volunteering and volunteers and, through our Volunteer Development Service (VDS) scheme we help local charities and groups to promote their volunteering opportunities and find the right people to help their organisations.
We’re refreshing our website at the moment, but there’s information about the VDS scheme here.
Volunteer Managers in our VDS member groups meet online every two months as part of our Volunteer Managers Network (we have around 15 member groups and all are invited to join the online Zoom sessions). Our members share what they are up to; we provide advice and updates and we help learn best practice from each other and generally support those in volunteer management roles.
If you’re interested in the Volunteer Development Service or the zoom meetings then talk to Liz at VANEL who can tell you more. VDS is only £75 per year per organisation and that includes the £25 VANEL membership fee. (Contact liz@vanel.org.uk)
You’ll also find us at relevant events occasionally sharing information about volunteering and encouraging people to get involved. Liz was recently at a Health and Wellbeing open day in Grimsby to talk with people about volunteering and pathways back to work. Everyone wanted to chat and one lady went straight from the event to a recommended local charity to enquire about an open opportunity and has already started volunteering!
Make the most of this Volunteers’ Week to encourage volunteering; say thank you to your current volunteers and celebrate the hard work that everyone puts in – without which our organisations and the services we provide would not be the same.
Download the flyer for Volunteers’ Week and share it around.
Visit https://volunteersweek.org/ for all the information.
Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/volunteergy
