About GoldStar 
| Organisation | View Snapshot |
|---|---|
| WORLDWrite |  |
WORLDWrite has the following strengths:
- An open door policy for all volunteers
- A variety of volunteering opportunities and activities available at any one time
- Imaginative ways of supporting volunteers as opposed to replicating paid work
- Youth Leadership
- Recruitment and ongoing support of volunteers without bureaucracy
- Content led approach
- Utilising and recognising volunteer's own experience
WORLDwrite's Ticking our Boxes Project tries to encourage organisations to stop and think about what is good practice for them and the volunteers they wish to work with. For example, they will be developing a Q&A around the formalisation of volunteering programmes. So before downloading volunteer application forms, volunteer interview forms, volunteer development plans, volunteers supervision records, volunteer progression records and so forth, they can inject ‘stop and think’ time. They ask questions such as:
- do we really need volunteers to fill in a quarterly form asking them to reflect on their learning or is that more about our evaluation needs?
- What do we monitor and why?
- What personal questions should we ask a volunteer?
- WORLDwrite's Ambassadors will be the Volunteer Development worker, with over 15 years experience of setting up and managing volunteer projects in resource light areas, and importantly, at least two young volunteers from the "Ticking our Boxes" (TOB) Crew.
- WORLDWrite's aim is to disseminate a less heard and more critical volunteer view through the Ticking Our Boxes (TOB) project
- The TOB Website is available here and contains a film and accompanying material and debates. These may be individually watched and read or used as a workshop/group activity.
- Ambassadors from the TOB crew are available to talk online and walk your organisation through TOB's developed resources and workshops
- The TOB crew will identify and develop various methods of communicating and supporting good practice. They are looking to write articles on different issues in volunteering, film opinion pieces to camera to upload on the website, Q&As, poll questions. These will accompany the film and existing materials online
- The crew can also develop a bespoke response to queries or requests from organisations - this could be through a workshop package, visits or (more often due to limited time of the volunteers) online through web chats etc.
If you’d like any more information about this Goldstar Ambassador
or have any further enquiries, simply send us a message on the email below.
