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Training and Workshops

Increasing your knowledge of Volunteer Practice is very important to us - it’s what we do!

All of our Training Courses, Learning Bites and Workshops have been designed to help you make a positive impact on your volunteer programme and on the volunteers who freely give their time and expertise. These include:

  • Face-to-face training – 1, 2 or 3 day courses, held in person at the Volunteer Scotland Office.
  • Interactive Learning Bites – 2 hour online sessions
  • Open University Courses – Free to access any time and therefore have no start/end date or time
  • Quality Standard Workshops – Free, 2 hour online workshops

Meet the Training Team

The Volunteer Scotland training team is made up of highly experienced trainers in volunteer practice and engagement. Through our training sessions they will support you in enhancing and furthering your knowledge and understanding of all things volunteer practice. Find out more about each of them here.

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Face to Face training
Open University Courses
Quality Standard Workshops

Face to Face training

Supporting Volunteers

4th October

This one-day course will cover everything you need to know about creating a positive and supportive volunteer experience.

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Developing Volunteer Practice

18th October, 15th November &13th December

This three-day course, split over six weeks, will cover everything you need to know about involving volunteers, from thinking about involving volunteers to creating positive endings for volunteers.

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Volunteers Mental Wellbeing

19th October

This is a one-day course where we’ll discuss the importance of understanding mental wellbeing and how to support volunteers throughout their volunteer journey.

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Building Positive Staff and Volunteer Relations

1st November

This is one-day course looks at ways you and your organisation can create positive relationships between staff and volunteers.

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Effective Leadership in Volunteering

7th & 21st November

This two-day course, split over two weeks, will cover everything you need to know about managing and leading a volunteer programme and people.

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Developing a Volunteering Strategy

9th November

This is a one-day course where we’ll discuss the purpose of developing a strategy for volunteering, the benefits of a volunteering strategy for the wider organisation, and steps to develop a strategy.

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Developing Volunteer Culture

28th November

This is a one-day course where we’ll define organisational culture and consider how changing your culture impacts upon the volunteering experience.

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Volunteer Change Management

5th December

This is a one-day course where we’ll discuss why change is important and how to manage and effectively communicate change.

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Supporting Volunteers

12th December

This one-day course will cover everything you need to know about creating a positive and supportive volunteer experience.

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Open University Courses

A Volunteer Charter

This OU Learning Bite has been developed by Volunteer Scotland and the STUC and will introduce the key questions that should be reflected on as you think about whether or not you are applying the principles of the Volunteer Charter within your group/organisation.
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Keeping Volunteers Safe

This course is about the essential things you need to consider to ensure a positive experience for individuals returning to engage in volunteering following suspension of programmes in response to COVID-19
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Involving Volunteers

The course is about the essential things you need to consider to ensure a positive experience for individuals engaging in volunteering.
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Collaborative Leadership in Voluntary Organisations

This course will help you reflect on and develop collaborative leadership practices that will make a difference.
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Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

This course provides an opportunity for people who work within voluntary organisations, as paid employees or staff, to develop energetic, practical and thoughtful leadership practice.
Start here

Quality Standard Information Workshop

Available Dates: 26th September 2023, 19th December 2023 or 28th March 2024

In this FREE online information workshop we will explain and discuss the Quality Standards and the Quality Pipeline and provide you with more information on each product, standard and process and the explain the difference they can make to volunteers experience.

This workshop will help you make the right development step for your volunteer programme. All workshops will be delivered online (via zoom) and free to all attendees, however booking is required.

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Note: This is an information workshop, you will not be required to sign up to a quality standard after this event.

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