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Volunteering Matters reports archive.

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Evaluation Report – Enhancing Youth Volunteering Opportunities in Health & Social Care

This report aims to share our learning from commissioned work and the steps needed to improve youth volunteering with the health & social care sectors.

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Evaluation of Volunteers Supporting Families : Executive Summary

Executive Summary on the Evaluation of Volunteers Supporting Families project; an additional resource for social care teams.

Rural Isolation of citizens in Europe

Over the course of a two year campaign on rural isolation, Volonteurope has been gathering evidence and good practice from the European voluntary sector.

Open the doors to citizen engagement: empowered volunteers, quality services

This paper sets out Volunteering Matters’ thinking about how we might empower volunteers in ways that can help them to improve the quality of outcomes for people who use care and support services.

Engaging Older People of Asian Origin

Our Retired and Senior Volunteering Programme (RSVP) in Coventry has been delivering a project tackling isolation and improving wellbeing amongst older people in Coventry through volunteer-led activity.

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Toolkit – Youth Social Action in Health and Social Care, 1st edition

This toolkit looks at social action and volunteering – including both formal and informal opportunities for young people to engage within health and care settings often described as social action.

Top Tips for Realising Person Centred Care through Volunteering

This Top Tips guide is about how volunteering can promote and enable person centred care and support. It is about the introduction of personal health budgets (PHBs) and the important roles which volunteers and peer-supporters might play.

Annual Review 2014

Our annual review 2014 showing ordinary people making an extraordinary difference.

Working with volunteers to understand the quality of care services

This report from 2014 by Community Services Volunteers (CSV) commissioned by the CQC identifies and suggests ways to best gather experiences of people using social care services through CSV and other agencies.

Rural isolation of citizens in europe

This brief aims to introduce the problem of rural isolation, reflect on its realities and negative impact and assess its different dimensions.