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Good Practice Guidelines > Good Practice Toolkit
Application Form (for positions involving contact with children & young people)
This is an alternative application form which organisations recruiting volunteers to childcare positions may wish to use.
Application Pack Letter (for positions involving contact with children & young people)
This letter explains the procedure for returning the self-declaration form.
Exit questionnaire
One way of finding out how to improve your volunteer programme and keep your volunteers longer is to find out why they leave.
Induction checklist
It can be very useful to make a checklist to ensure that volunteers are fully inducted. It doesn't have to be complicated, simply something you or the volunteer can tick off as things are completed.
Interview Record Form
A useful record for organisations that use an interview as part of their recruitment process.
Letter to Volunteer Driver's Insurers
A sample letter to give to your volunteers so they can inform their insurers that they are going to be a volunteer driver.
Letter to Volunteer's Referee
This letter allows you to glean useful information about the potential volunteer and will help you determine if they are suited to the volunteer task.
Reference Request Form
This is an alternative way of taking up a reference and allows you to ask specific questions about the suitability of the volunteer to the task.
Self-declaration Form
A Self-declaration Form allows organisations to ask questions about potential volunteers convictions prior to a Disclosure being carried out.
Self-declaration Form Guidance Notes
These provide the potential volunteer with explanatory notes for completion of the Self Declaration Form.
Supervision Record Form
It can be helpful to use this form to keep a record of any supervision sessions you have with your volunteers.
Task Description
A task description gives a prospective volunteer a good idea of what will be expected of them, and clear guidelines once they are involved in the organisation.
Training Needs Analysis
This pro-forma allows you to plan volunteers’ training taking into account the needs of the volunteer role and the skills of the volunteers.
Volunteer Agreement
Use these guidance notes to help you draw up a volunteer agreement that is relevant to your organisation.
Volunteer Application Form
A simple form for gathering information about potential volunteers and references.
Volunteer Expenses Form
Ask volunteers to record their actual out of pocket expenses on this form.
Volunteer Management Assessment Toolkit
This assessment tool, provided in Excel, allows organisations to reflect on their overall volunteer programme and identifies where they are at while highlighting areas where more development is required.
Volunteer Policy Guidance
These guidance notes will help you think through developing a volunteer policy and give you suggestions as to what to include.
Volunteer Review Form
A Volunteer Review (similar to an Annual Appraisal) is an opportunity for the volunteer to reflect on the previous year as a volunteer with your organisation and for them to make plans and set goals.
