The place to come for volunteer recruitment and management advice

To contact the Volunteer Centre

Sandi Clark, Volunteer Centre Coordinator

Telephone: 01653 600120

Email: sandi@rva-cvs.org.uk

The Volunteer Centre is based in Ryedale Community House, and is open two days a week, normally on a Thursday and Friday.   

We have been providing a valued and successful service in Ryedale for many years.  We work with many organisations who offer high quality opportunities for volunteers, covering many different work areas doing a huge range of different tasks and place over 50 volunteers successfully per year. 

Volunteer Centre Ryedale is actively committed to the principle of equal opportunities and supports and encourages everyone to volunteer. 

We'll always offer support and advice on how to make your opportunities more accessible.  We will not advertise any  opportunity we believe to be discriminatory.  Volunteers are more likely to choose to volunteer with an organisation if they follow good practice in volunteer management - see us for more information about good volunteer management practice for your organisation. 

What we do

  • Promote volunteering and provide information and advice to people who want to volunteer.
  • Help organisations to develop volunteering opportunities.
  • Support organisations that involve volunteers so they can be successful in getting and keeping volunteers.
  • Market volunteering in Ryedale. 
  • Get involved in local, regional and national campaigns associated with volunteering.
  • Engage with statutory bodies to ensure that the profile of volunteering is raised. 

Want to Volunteer?

 

If you are interested in volunteering but don't know where to start, you can contact us by telephone or email.  Of if you prefer to you can call and make an appointment or drop in to see us at Community House on Wentworth Street.

 

Are you an organisation or business?  Do you want to offer opportunities for volunteers?

  • Contact us  to register your opportunities on our database of volunteering in Ryedale.
  • Your opportunity will be advertised on the website www.do-it.org.uk the only national volunteering database, for free. 
  • Join our email list to receive updates on the latest in volunteer management news, training and support.
  • We will promote and market your volunteering opportunities with the local media.
  • We will provide advice and information on volunteer management. This includes where to get training, examples of policies and good practice, getting money for volunteer management and what’s happening on the regional and national scene.
  • We will provide support to your volunteers if they require it, especially if the opportunity that you have offered is not suitable. 
  • We will also forward your details to other Volunteer Centres in the region if you would like us to.

What you have to do to get started

  • Register with us and keep us up to date with information on volunteering opportunities you have. 
  • Screen volunteers according to your recruitment policy.  We do not take references or do disclosures (CRB checks), we leave that to you.  We can advise on interviewing, risk assessment and selecting and screening volunteers.
  • Share our commitment to increasing diversity and challenging any sort of discrimination or barriers that may stop people getting involved.
  • Make sure you meet your legal responsibilities, for example your insurance for volunteers and health and safety requirements.

You do not have to take on the volunteer we refer to you.  If they are not suited to the opportunity please refer them back to us so we can make sure they still get to volunteer.

As members of YAHVCON (Yorkshire and Humber Volunteer Centre Network) we work together with all volunteer centres to improve our standards and provide a single "volunteering voice".

 

Not happy with our service?

Tell us what the problems are and hopefully we’ll be able to meet with you and sort out any difficulties.

We are always looking for ways to improve what we do.  We welcome feedback on our service in whichever way you want to tell us.