Volunteering

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TakePartNELs aim is simple, to help promote local roles for local groups and organisations and help potential volunteers find roles that might interest them. We don’t find or create roles, we just seek to showcase the existing opportunities out there seeking dedicated, passionate volunteers.

Register with us at TakePartNEL to be kept up to date with any roles and opportunities here in North East Lincolnshire seeking support.

Join the hundreds of local people who are already signed up and be part of the TakePartNEL family.

Volunteering opportunities

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Why volunteer?

Learn and teach new skills in a two-way process
Enhance your CV and future job prospects
Increase your social and relationship skills
Improve your self-confidence
Gain satisfaction through helping others
Develop a sense of achievement and purpose
Escape the day-to-day routine

I want to volunteer

information for local organisations

Request volunteer support

If you’re looking for volunteer support and want us to help promote the role, you will need to follow process laid out in the sections below and also ensure your organisation is ‘volunteer ready’ before taking volunteers on board.

Once TakePartNEL has supported your organisation with sourcing voluntary support, the volunteers will then become your organisation’s responsibility. Once a volunteer from our database has been suggested to your role, you must contact them within 48 hours of receiving their details – even if they won’t be used – to make sure we don’t lose volunteer enthusiasm.

Before requesting support please ensure you or your organisation has an adequate volunteer policy in place and that your insurance includes volunteer coverage, and evidence may be requested at any time. If you or your organisation do not have any of these, or you require further information in how to induct, train and manage volunteers please contact Sector support NEL for guidance before moving forward.
Ensure you have a full role description prepared for the role requiring support.
Complete the TakePartNEL Volunteer Support Request form.
Successful requests will be promoted on the TakePartNEL webpage and via our registered TakePartNEL volunteers.
Any volunteer interest will be collated and sent over to the requesting organisation. There may be some instances where direct referrals to requester can be arranged within role advert.
Once requesting service/organisation has received any interested volunteer details (i.e. name and contact details) the service/organisation has to follow up with direct communication to the volunteer within 24 hours.
The volunteers from this point forward will be the responsibility of the requesting service/organisation.
Please note that we cannot guarantee volunteers or voluntary support, our offer is to promote the role across our database and wider across North East Lincolnshire to reach a larger audience of potential volunteers to help support your search for support.

Once you engage the volunteer that TakePartNEL has sourced, your organisation is responsible for that volunteer.

Follow your organisation or groups policies/processes when engaging volunteers, including:

Checking if they are suitable for the role
If a DBS is required, the individuals DBS check is in line with your organisations policies. DBS checks are not carried out by TakePartNEL.
Health and safety
Insurance – Liability insurance requirements
Safeguarding
GDPR
Equality and diversity
This list is not exhaustive. Please refer to your individual companies policies.