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How volunteers can help support people back into work
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• Aims for the Expert Volunteer Initiative and the role of the working group
• How volunteers have supported the long term unemployed - examples of work that SOVA has done under previous contracts
• Looking forward - how volunteers can support customers under Work Programme
This seminar session will look at:
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• One of only two charities to be named as a prime
provider for Work Programme
• We reinvest our surplus into the community
• Utilise technology – e.kwip.me
• Focused on improving our service to customers –
Expert Volunteer Initiative
CDG and our approach
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• Launched as part of CDG’s charitable and public benefit in 2010
• Targets those hardest to help who remain out of work whatever the economic cycle or government programme
• Aims to tap into the skills and expertise of people who have the desire and capacity to help support the long term unemployed
Expert Volunteer Initiative
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• Co-ordinated approach
• National scheme aims to sign up 50,000
volunteers across the UK to support the long
term unemployed back into work
• Cross sector working group
Expert Volunteer Initiative across the UK
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• Independent volunteer chair
• The Call for nominations
• Range of sectors, experience and networks
• CDG provides secretariat support
How the working group has evolved
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• Learning from what is already in place
• Developing a framework
• Seeking organisations to pilot the framework
• Evaluating the effectiveness of volunteer support in welfare to work
Aims for the working group
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• Skilled volunteers to provide additional support for jobseekers of the Work Programme
• Support jobseekers at different stages of jobseeker journey
• Sharing skills and experience from their own careers
• In-work support through mentoring
CDG Volunteers and their role in the Work Programme
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Contact the working group via [email protected] if you are interested in:
•Learning more about CDG Volunteers
•Contributing to the framework
•Being a pilot site
•Sponsoring the initiative in your area
How to get involved
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Questions