A key starting point to setting up a new volunteer programme is to reflect on the reasons why your organisation involves volunteers in the first place and to list what exactly you want to achieve through involving volunteers. A clear understanding as to why you involve volunteers and the many ways that volunteers contribute to your organisation will help define the processes by which your organisation will recruit, screen, supervise, support and value your volunteers.

National Volunteering Week 2026 – From Every Corner, For Every Cause
National Volunteering Week 2026, taking place Monday 18th to Sunday 24th of May celebrates the theme “From Every Corner, For Every Cause” – recognising the diversity


