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With the coronavirus keeping most of us at home for the time being, you may be looking for ways to keep productive and help others at the same time. Try online volunteering.

As Covid-19 affects our communities and key aspects of everyday life, it raises questions for how we best manage our volunteers. How can we in our organisations and groups, respond effectively to this challenging situation?

The Covid-19 epidemic has become much more real for many of us this week following the latest set of restrictions around our daily lives and the prospect of many of our loved ones either being infected and/or forced to isolate for weeks and months.

November 2019 saw Volunteer Scotland publish their report, 'The contribution of volunteering to Scotland's health and wellbeing: challenges, opportunities and priorities 2020 - 2040'.

This is a question we’ve probably all asked ourselves if we’re involved in managing, supporting or working alongside volunteers.

Damian Sherwood-Johnson, Volunteer Support Coordinator at Sistema Scotland talks 'changing the tune' this International Volunteer Managers Day.

This Befriending Week 1st -7th November we are shinning a spotlight on health and wellbeing.