COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS SOAP CENTRE Engine Shed

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COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERSSOAP CENTRE Engine Shed
Community CITIZENSHIP
Experience Careers

Employability

• Coordinators Pam Holbrook
• 
  Shelagh Chapman
• Natalie Wray
• visit.lincoln.ac.uk

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HISTORY

• HEACF Initial funding for 30 months to co-opt
  students and staff into voluntary opportunities
  in the community
• Targets met and exceeded project extended
• Recognition with national awards
• Community partnerships formed raising UL profile
• Networking to identify local opportunities
• Volunteers placed
• Projects supported
• Fundraising

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STATISTICS


Recruited 172 Pending Place 124 Placed 145 Total
441
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STATISTICS
Staff 16 Students 425
Total 441
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BENEFITS of volunteering

• A chance to make a difference to the lives of
  others
• A better understanding of the important issues
  around equal opportunities, diversity and under
  represented groups
• Skills, experience gained in real life
  situations, CV enhancement leading to
  employability for volunteers
• Fun and friendships

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Some Projects

• In addition to providing a brokerage service
  between students, staff and Voluntary
  Organisations, we run projects
• Befriending - Keyring Rampton, SOVA
• Mentoring
• Shepherds Food Ministry - Fundraising
• International Students translation service
• SIREN radio in schools

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Partnerships

• Community and Voluntary Sector
• Volunteer England
• Student Volunteer England
• Lincoln Cathedral
• CVS
• Lincoln and Hull Volunteer Bureaux
• HUSSO
• WISCV Workers in Student Community Volunteering
• Student Union
• NHS Mental Health Trust
• Lincolnshire Sports Partnership

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Some aims for the future

• To be sustainable and embedded within University
  faculties
• To integrate with SU on student led projects
  which will benefit the community
• To widen access to education and employability
• To be a central point for community action and
  volunteering
• To provide volunteering opportunities for all

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THE WAY FORWARD

• VC s support and local commitment
• HEACF 3 funding until 2009
• SU partnership in community action
• Raised National Profile Year of the Volunteer
  and Russell Commission
• Aim - to create new volunteering opportunities
  and to support existing volunteers
• Aim to link volunteers with community partners
  to promote experience and employability

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SOME PROJECTS FOR THE FUTURE

• Business in the Community Partners in Reading
• Sports mentoring, coaching and volunteering
• ACTS Trust
• Mentoring
• UNICEF
• Siren Community Radio
• Young Enterprise in schools
• CVS/ Notts PTC Befriending Project

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SUSTAINABILITYmission statement

• To embed a sustainable volunteering culture
  within the University which will positively
  impact on the community, promoting citizenship,
  understanding,
• skills and employability.

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visit.lincoln.ac.uk

• Thank you
• Community Volunteers
• SOAP Centre Engine Shed
• Ext. (88) 6922
• Ex. (88) 6420