December 2015
DBS CHECKS: WHEN DO YOU NEED THEM?
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Dec
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When does your organisation do a DBS check for volunteers? For everyone who comes through your door? For people volunteering with children? Not at all – and you’re hoping that’s right? DBS checks can be confusing for organisations working with volunteers, so we’ve put together this simple guide to help you to decide when you […]
Could you be a Trustee?
03
Dec
Almost half of all charities in the UK have at least one trustee post vacant. So what is it that stops volunteers taking up these roles? Sometimes it’s a mental image of volunteering as being charity shops and tea dances, with no professional opportunities. Sometimes it’s feeling that you have to have years of leadership […]