Student Volunteering Network

Welcome to the Student Volunteering Network

This is an opportunity to join the specialist networks run by Volunteering England. The Student Volunteers Network is for students from across the country to get together and share their passion and enthusiasm for volunteering. Depending on whether you are a student, officer or staff member, these specialist organisations provide access to the latest volunteering policies and resources.

Join the New Online Student Volunteering Network Here!

News

The Student Volunteering Online Network

The Student Volunteering Team at Volunteering England has a new online Student Volunteer Network available to you.

On the new network you can;

• Write blogs, ask questions, join regional or interest groups and add photos and videos of volunteering

• Learn from each other on what works and doesn't in setting up volunteer projects etc.

• Hear about SV events such as our National Student Volunteering Conference and Student Volunteering Week.

• Hear about and get involved in regional volunteering opportunities.

We hope this new network will be more beneficial to student volunteers and will make it easier to contact each other and learn from each others experiences and ideas.

Visit http://svnetwork.ning.com/ and join up to the network now!

Resources

NUS produces and maintains a variety of key volunteering resources for union officers and staff. They can be accessed from this page at the links below. E-mail the networks team if you have any resources which you would like to share with your colleagues.

Russell Commission

NUS is strongly committed to developing volunteering opportunities through working in partnership with Student Volunteering England (SVE) and Workers in Student Community Volunteering (WiSCV).

In December 2004, NUS submitted a response to the Russell Commission's consultation on Youth Action and Engagement. The Commission has now reported, with recommendations on how a national framework for youth action engagement might be implemented. The main objectives of this proposed framework are to:

• Raise the number of young people volunteering with a formal organisation at least once a year from 41% to 51% by 2010

• Establish a baseline for the volunteering rates of different groups of young people and show a measurable decrease between those groups less likely to volunteer and the average age of volunteering.

• Establish a definition and baseline for young people-let opportunities and show a year-on-year increase

The full report is available at The Russell Commission

Download this Get On Board press release:

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Principles

Principles of volunteering - There are four fundamental principles to volunteering.

The Life Cycle of a Volunteer - Introduce yourself to the Life Cycle of a Volunteer model which acts as a guide to the different stages that a volunteer will go through when participating in a volunteering activity.

Year of the Volunteer

2005 was the Year of the Volunteer

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