Quality Standards

Achieve a Quality Standard. There’s no better way to improve your volunteer practice or to deliver great volunteering experiences, consistently.

We believe that your commitment to ‘quality’ practice begins by signing up to The Volunteer Charter. Then consider a Quality Standard:

  • Volunteer Friendly (for Small – Medium volunteer programmes)
  • Investing in Volunteers (for Medium – Large volunteer programmes)

Wherever you start, we’ll invite you to be part of a growing community of peers, focused on quality volunteer practice. We’ve called this ‘The Volunteering Quality Pipeline’. Value volunteering, commit to quality practice.

Volunteer Charter

The Volunteer Charter sets out the ten key principles which help to underpin good relations within a volunteering environment. It is open to any group or organisation from any sector who involves volunteers.
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Volunteer Friendly

The Volunteer Friendly Award is a user-friendly quality standard to support, recognise and reward groups who are good at involving volunteers. Volunteer Friendly is aimed at small to medium volunteer programmes.
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Investing in Volunteers

Investing in Volunteers (IiV) is the UK quality standard for good practice in volunteer management. IiV is aimed at medium to large volunteer programmes, with requirements set at an achievable level for each volunteer programme.
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Book your training today!

Search our directed and self directed training courses and workshops relating to volunteer practice.
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