We’ve compiled volunteer management resources to help you welcome volunteers back after COVID-19.
Safely Welcoming Back Volunteers – Make Your Mark
Speakers from across Scotland’s heritage sector give their top tips for how to safely restart on-site volunteering programmes during COVID-19.
Volunteer re-induction PowerPoint – Historic Environment Scotland
Volunteer organisers can adapt this PowerPoint presentation for re-inducting volunteers. The PowerPoint covers new health and safety policies and procedures, how to handle difficult situations, addressing unconscious bias and more.
Volunteer re-induction checklist – Historic Environment Scotland
This helpful checklist outlines the different topics to discuss with volunteers before they return back on-site, and can be used to take notes of volunteers’ comments and concerns during a re-induction session.
Minimum operating standards for reopening – Historic Environment Scotland
These COVID-19 Policy and Minimum Operating Standards outline the requirements that must be met before Historic Environment Scotland sites will be able to reopen in line with official government guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their standards could provide guidance and inspiration for other organisations developing minimum operating standards for reopening.
Volunteer redeployment resources – Heritage Volunteering Group
The Heritage Volunteering Group has developed a volunteer redeployment framework and a volunteer redeployment survey to support organisations in the remobilisation of their volunteers.
Restarting services safely – The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
It can be overwhelming to find the right piece of guidance to help you with your reopening plans. If you’re in that boat this blog provides a summary of Scottish Government guidance, the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations guidance and Public Health Scotland.
Volunteering and coronavirus – Volunteer Scotland
Volunteer Scotland has compiled clear and accurate information to help volunteers and volunteer involving organisations during coronavirus.
Volunteering for All Evidence Session: COVID edition – Volunteer Scotland
The ‘Evidence Sessions’ are an opportunity for those with an interest in volunteering to keep up-to-date with the latest research. The Evidence Session held in June 2020 focussed on how COVID-19 is affecting volunteering, and how organisations are creatively responding to the challenge.
Welcome Back Training – University of Cambridge Museums
If your heritage organisation is hoping to reopen soon, this video provides a good example of training to provide to returning or new volunteers. It highlights key points to consider in post-COVID volunteering and interactions with the public.
Welcome Back Training – Heritage Volunteering Group
In this short video, Matt Hick, Head of Volunteering at Science Museum Group, takes you through the COVID-19 remobilisation planning and Welcome Back Training that has been developed at the Science Museum Group.
Coronavirus & resuming volunteering activities – Volunteer Edinburgh
Regardless of your organisation’s size, you need to assess and manage the risks of COVID-19 as you plan resumption of your activities. You have a responsibility and legal duty to protect your people (whether paid staff, volunteers or members of the public) from risk to their health and safety. This guide will help you think about the risks they face and do everything reasonably practical to minimise them.
The ultimate guide to setting up virtual volunteering in your organisation – Nonprofit learning lab
In the wake of COVID-19, many organisations have quickly adapted their activities to online delivery. This guide reviews key virtual volunteering resources to help you plan virtual volunteering, keep virtual volunteering interesting and maintain a sense of community in a virtual environment.
Growing and engaging audiences online – Heritage Digital
If your organisation chooses to remain closed this year, you can still connect with audiences online, and get some volunteers on board to help you do so! To help you get started, this webinar covers how to identify your heritage organisation’s audience and how to target them online; the best platforms to use to reach your target audience; how to grow your social media followers; and how to write engaging digital content.
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