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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£1.6M
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Spending
£1.5M
Public benefits
The work of Volunteer Now advances citizenship and community development by promoting and supporting volunteering. Definition of volunteering: ’The commitment of time and energy for the benefit of society and the community, the environment or individuals outside (or in addition to) one’s immediate family. It is unpaid and undertaken freely and by
choice’. (Volunteering Strategy & Action Plan for Northern Ireland) Direct benefits: • Individuals through involvement in volunteering contributing to helping others and the community. • Individuals through involvement in volunteering gaining confidence, becoming more employable; improving their health through physical and mental activity; meeting people and becoming less socially isolated; learning about their community and how to make a positive difference. • Individuals expressing active citizenship through contributing their time and actions to build communities where people can feel happy, safe and fulfilled. Indirect benefits: • Improved competence and capacity of volunteer involving organisations to involve and manage their volunteers effectively to enhance the experience and deliver greater community impact. Wider benefits: • Citizens taking responsibility for community well being. • A more cohesive and inclusive society. • A vibrant voluntary & community and charitable sector. Volunteer Now is committed to enabling service users including volunteers to give feedback on our work and we do this through evaluating activities on an ongoing basis and sending out surveys to individuals and organisations to find out how satisfied they are with the services provided. Beneficiaries: • The general public and also sufficient sections of people including: children & young people; older people; families; men & women; those with physical or mental ill health; those with physical, sensory or learning disabilities; the unemployed; the employed; the retired; students and those who work in the home; those with an interest in the arts, in history, in sport; people from minority ethnic backgrounds and other minority groups; people living in need in other countries, refugees and the homeless. Volunteer Now purposes are not harmful and where there is private benefit it is incidental including a sense of well being to those who volunteer and as appropriate training to enable volunteers, e.g. Charity Trustees, to effectively carry out their roles in delivering public benefit.
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Volunteer Now: • Promotes and provides information about volunteer involvement and the benefits of volunteering; • Links individuals who want to volunteer with volunteer opportunities; • Provides information, training and support to organisations to develop capacity, skills and good practice in relation to the involvement and management of
volunteers; • Facilitates and seeks to improve the participation by groups and individuals who tend to be under represented in volunteering within Northern Ireland e.g. young people, older people, people with a disability; people from ethnic minority communities; • Undertakes research and provides evidence of volunteering including identifying emerging issues and trends; • Develops and delivers opportunities, innovative models and projects that enable individuals to respond to need and become involved as active citizens in their community; • Collaborates with others to recognise, enhance and increase volunteering.
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- The advancement of citizenship or community development
Who the charity helps
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- General public
- Older people
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Community transport
- Education/training
- Volunteer development
- Youth development
