Volunteer Centre Clackmannanshire

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Volunteer Centres in Scotland

Volunteer Centres in Scotland exist to involve more people, more effectively in volunteering to help address issues and enchance communities. Volunteer Centre Network Scotland is a network of 32 independent agencies working all over Scotland from 50 local offices. Based in Alloa, the Volunteer Centre Clackmannanshire (VCC) provides services across Clackmannanshire. For information about what volunteering can do for you and your community please see the Volunteering and You page on this site.

Our aims

VCC takes any action which makes it easier for people to volunteer and aims to:

Increase the number of people involved in volunteering;
Broaden the range of people volunteering;
Bring about more positive attitudes to volunteering;
Get volunteering better recognised at policy level;
Develop the capacity of volunteer involving agencies and volunteers;
Be well run, influential and effective, striving for continuous improvement.

Our activities

Services for people interested in volunteering:

Information and guidance about volunteering;
Opportunities;
A formal and supported introduction to volunteer engaging agencies;
On-going support to help people stay involved;
Completion of Disclosure Scotland police checks if necessary.

Services for volunteer engaging agencies

Guidance and resources on good volunteering policy and practice;
Guidance and information on issues affecting volunteering locally and nationally;
Direct or indirect support in recruiting volunteers including help with job descriptions, advertising and screening;
Support with meeting space and drop in facilities;
Acting as an umbrella body for the Central Registered Body in Scotland, which involves completing and processing disclosures for voluntary organisations that register with the VCC for this service;
Operating the Trusted Partner Scheme in relation to checking the ID and authenticity of representatives from voluntary organisations who may be applying to become lead signatories, for disclosure checks, within their organisations.