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Welcome to Volunteer Solutions - your total solution to volunteer training.

Volunteer Solutions produce training resources and materials that are tried and tested, practical and easy to use. Perfect for when you need to train volunteers and support staff.

We have done all the preparation so that you do not have to, saving you valuable time and money.

Browse our extensive range on the products page to find the pack best suited to your training needs or contact us for a bespoke training solution.

Our value for money packs are timed sessions complete with trainer notes, handouts, activity sheets and Power Point presentations.

. Produce professional, affordable training packs written specifically for the
voluntary sector
. Provide low cost, high quality training for you to deliver

cost effective - no need to bring in expensive outside training
you deliver the training in-house at a time to suit you
you can easily tailor to your training needs
easy to use for the novice or more experienced trainer
ideal to set up a complete training programme or supplement an existing one

You can buy with total confidence as our packs are widely used throughout the voluntary and charity sector and we supply numerous Volunteer Centres and CVS plus over 900 small and national organisations worldwide including;

Age Concern, Alzheimer’s Society, Barnardos, Mind, Action for Children, St John’s Ambulance Service, the Salvation Army, Save the Children, Homestart, Sure Start, English Heritage, Headway, Help the Aged, DIAL, Groundwork, the Autistic Society, Rethink, RSPCA, RSPB, Volunteering England, YMCA, plus advocacy services, hospices, hospitals, museums, housing associations, women’s aid groups, carers associations, residents’ associations and prison volunteer programmes.

Our extensive experience within the Voluntary Sector has enabled us to develop training solutions that can be successfully applied to all types of voluntary organisations regardless of their size or their objectives.

Volunteer Solutions' concept is unique - we do not deliver the training for you and our packs are not help manuals. The packs provide YOU with the resources so that YOU can deliver the training when and where it suits YOU.

You can pick up our packs and start training tomorrow.
Volunteer training has never been so easy - our packs ensure success.

Join the Forum to share problems, issues of good practice and new ideas with your colleagues in the voluntary sector; and get special offers, free gifts and discounts on suppliers and services.

Nick Clegg invites ideas on cutting charity sector red tape.
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is asking the British public which laws they want scrapped, including regulation of the charity sector. The government has set up a website called Your Freedom on which the public can comment on laws they want repealed or changed. It includes a section on cutting business and voluntary sector regulation.
The site has attracted around 7,000 comments since its launch last week. Ideas related to the sector included gift aid reform and increasing the charity regulation threshold to £10,000.
http://yourfreedom
.hmg.gov.uk/

There is also a site set up by the treasury to allow people to suggest ways to cut government spending,
http://spendingchallenge.hm-treasury.gov.uk/

Vetting & Barring Scheme
News from the Indpenedent Safeguarding Authority web site states that the Government has set out its aim to ‘review the criminal records and vetting and barring regime and scale it back to common sense levels’.
In order to deliver this promise and carry out the remodelling, the Vetting and Barring Scheme will be halted. The first phase of registration was due to commence on 26 July 2010. More information on the ISA website http://www.isa-gov.org.uk/

Annual Reports
A report from Deloitte ‘Surveying the Sector’ says that although annual reports comply with most regulatory reporting requirements the majority are very dull and miss the opportunity to give donors and stakeholders a greater insight into their work.

Funding
NAVCA have warned that £100m is likely to be slashed from voluntary sector funding over the next few weeks following cuts to council budgets.
Has your organisation been affected?

Olympics 2012
McDonald’s will be responsible for recruiting and training the 70,000 volunteers needed to run the 2012 Olympic Games, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games has confirmed.

Big Lottery
The Big Lottery Fund will this month announce the first 50 communities to benefit from a £200m fund which will give residents power over funding projects.
The BIG Local funding stream sees the funder identify regions which have traditionally not received much money from BIG in recognition, according to chief executive Peter Wanless, that sometimes BIG has been compelled to fund projects with the best application, rather than those addressing the greatest need.

All Party Parliamentary Group
Alun Michael MP has been elected as chair of the influential All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Community and Voluntary Sector.

Sector News
There is much talk about funding cuts, the Big Society and the future of the sector. We are aware that there are many daily and weekly quality news sites that you can access for full information (Third Sector, NCVO, VolResorce and Civil Society News) so we do not attempt to provide this type of updated material. There are the links to these on the Useful Links section of our website. Please let us know of others that you feel would be of interest.

Please feel free to comment or expand on any of these news items in the forum, we look forward to seeing your views.