| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 27.06.2007 | The work of the Grassroots Project at Torridge Voluntary Services (TVS) continues apace with a focus now on sharing volunteering good practice. |
The work of the Grassroots Project at Torridge Voluntary Services (TVS) continues apace with a focus now on sharing volunteering good practice
Part of the role of the Grassroots Project has been to recruit and support a network of volunteer “Community Contacts” in the rural communities of Torridge here in North West Devon. Community Contacts act as mini volunteer centres for TVS, helping us to find volunteers and to support their local communities by disseminating a wide range of information about services and support in and to their local areas. In turn, we have supported them as ‘community activists’ by providing help, advice and training around issues of volunteer management.
The project has also worked hard to find local groups and activities the volunteers they need. A visual community project, now just completed as we speak, has been the painting of a wall mural in the port of Bideford. A local Community Contact volunteered to co-ordinate the project, aimed at brightening up the wall which is on a major entrance route into the town. Grassroots advised on Health & Safety and volunteer management issues and helped to recruit young people to paint the final designs. So next time you visit us on your holidays, check it out!
Grassroots has also been busily distributing its own Grassroots Toolkit, which contains good practice information about volunteer management and volunteer recruitment and has held two very successful volunteer management training days for local Voluntary and Community Organisations - Love Your Volunteers and Grow With Your Volunteers. The topics covered by the days have included Volunteers and the Law, Recruiting Volunteers and Recruiting Young Volunteers delivered by partner organisations Exeter CVS, North Devon Voluntary Services and The Ivy Project. Our TVS Champion for Mentoring and Befriending was also on hand to promote the Mentoring and Befriending Foundation Approved Provider status and to disseminate good practice in this area.
Particularly good news in May was the election of a very active Community Contact, who has been with Grassroots since Autumn 2005, as a Town Councillor.
Print this report 
Close this window