Project Description
The Programme will support local leaders to develop capacity, skills and confidence whilst learning new and innovative ways to ease and create active solutions to many of the challenges being faced within our communities. The programme will also look at focusing on how best to support and develop volunteer capacity and time, in ways which are both sustainable and rewarding.
The Programme will address the following key issues:
- Lack of volunteers willing to get involved in community related activities.
- Volunteers who feel they don’t have the capacity and skills to take on additional duties.
- Lack of suitably trained and supported volunteers.
- Volunteers looking to deliver on specific roles- not generalised.
- People being very conscious of what to do in their spare or down time.
- Shortage of people willing to volunteer.
- Lack of capacity within existing community leadership.
- Current community leadership feeling overstretched and unappreciated.
- Lack of professional development for current community leaders.
- Supporting organisations to be able to effectively support the development of volunteers.
By the end of the programme, the following targets will have been achieved:
- 260 x participants recruited
- A minimum of 26 hours (total) of meaningful engagement must be provided per participant
- Carry out several co-design workshops to develop a programme plan/workshops
- Delivery of 6 volunteer skills/ development workshops.
- Delivery of and a suitable leadership qualification.
- Delivery of 7 locally based suite of Programme Activities.
- Creation of a community leadership skills forum.
- A monitoring and evaluation process to establish baselines and evidence outcomes and outputs.
BUDGET: £171,744.00
Programme 1: Delivery of a Voluntary Capacity Programme - £60,110.00
Programme 2: Delivery of a Leadership Skills Programme - £111,634.00