Getting started
To advertise your volunteering roles with us we will ask you to register your organisation with us. This is completely free and simply involves completing a registration form which will give us some basic information about your organisation and your aims. On this form, we will ask you confirm that you have policies and structures and place to involve volunteers in your organisation. Please refer to the following list for details. If you have any queries or need support to put some of these in place, please contact us. There is a second form to register your volunteer vacancies.

To make volunteering a positive experience for both you and your volunteers, we ask you to consider the following before registering with us

• Insurance. Sufficient insurance to cover your potential volunteers’ activities or make sure your volunteers are aware of the potential risks if there is no insurance in place.
  

• Health and Safety. Follow health & safety regulations in relation to the volunteers’ work with the project and to make the volunteer aware of health & safety guidelines as part of their induction. In addition if the activity is volunteering with children or vulnerable adults you need to follow legal guidelines on the new Vetting and Barring system and Criminal Record Bureau checks.
  
• Equal Opportunities. Your organisation should have a commitment to equal opportunities (e.g. equal opportunities policy) and you should work in a non-discriminatory way with volunteers.

We also strongly encourage groups to have the following: 

• Named person as a volunteers contact. 
  

• Written volunteer role descriptions. 
  
• Payment of reasonable volunteer expenses (travel/lunch etc). 
  
• Regular form of volunteer supervision (formal or informal). 
  
• A system of volunteer induction and training. 
  
• Volunteer Policy with clear guidelines about inductions, training, support and supervision, recognition responsibility for volunteers and ending a volunteer role.

Good Practice Code
Click here to read our Good Practice Code (pdf document).

Register Your Organisation

If you are not registered with us you will need to complete our organisation registration form.

  Click here to download the form.

You can either e-mail it back to us or send it to us by post.

Register Your Volunteer Opportunity

Have you a new opportunity to register?

If you would like to register another volunteer role with us you just need to fill in our opportunity registration form:

Click here to download the form.

You can either e-mail it back to us or send it to us by post.

Please note:
Reigate & Banstead Volunteer Centre does not take up references or undertake CRB Police checks.  This is left to the recruiting voluntary organisation.

Useful Links

Listed below are links for further information:

Creating Volunteer Roles
Example Volunteer Role Descriptions
Creating Volunteer Roles Overview
Developing Task Descriptions

Attracting Volunteers
The Recruitment Guide Overview
Example of a Volunteer Recruitment Leaflet
Example Application Form for Organisation

Interviews
Creating a Fair, Welcoming Application Process Part 1
Creating a Fair, Welcoming Application Process Part 2
Example of Interviewing Guide
Volunteer Interviews
Screening Volunteers

References
Who Should We Accept as a Referee

Criminal Record Bureau checks
Introduction to Criminal Record (CRB) Checks
Independent Safeguarding Authority

Induction, Training and Support
Induction and Training Overview 
Thinking About Support and Supervision

Problem Solving Procedures
Information Sheet 

Confidentiality/Data Protection
Legal Obligations and Audit Guide 

Equal Opportunities & Diversity
Creating An Equal Opportunities Policy
A Model Equal Opportunities Policy 
Practical Ways to Promote Diversity

 
Expenses 
Volunteer Expenses
Example Expenses Policy

Insurance
Insurance for Volunteers

Health & Safety
Volunteer Drivers
Lone Worker Policy
Example of Health & Safety Guidelines

Volunteers from Outside the UK
Accepting Volunteers from Overseas



More information on all these areas can be found in the Good Practice Bank on the Volunteering England web site and in the CVS Network Resource Area

Incorporated within the
Reigate and Banstead Voluntary Service
Suite 3a, Victoria House, Brighton Road, Redhill, Surrey RH1 6QZ
(Company Number; 07217319, Charity Number: 1138897)

(c) Reigate and Banstead Voluntary Service 2011