Volunteer Bristol wins award for innovation

Volunteer Bristol’s partnership with the Bristol Learning Communities Team has won an award for the most innovative work with communities. Together we have developed and piloted a ‘Preparing to Volunteer’ training course to equip people with the basic skills for volunteering and to build their confidence. Piers Cardiff who developed the course with Learning Communities Development Worker, Suzanne Gaffney, collected the award at the ‘Me and My Neighbourhood Citizens’ Conference 2011. The pilot was a huge success with a majority of participants progressing onto volunteering opportunities and further study.  We hope to be building on the success of this pilot project by running more of these courses in the future.  Watch this space...