Inspiring Volunteering: A Volunteering Strategy for Edinburgh
“Our vision is of a city where everyone feels inspired to volunteer, has the opportunity to do so, and has an excellent volunteering experience”
Edinburgh’s Volunteering Strategy was the first Scottish local strategy to be developed by community planning partners. It provides a framework of actions to build and strengthen volunteering in Edinburgh. It was developed by a multiagency sub group of the Edinburgh Compact Partnership - the Volunteering Strategy Working Group (VSWG). It was endorsed by the City’s key strategic partnership and launched in December 2006 at Edinburgh’s City Chambers.
The responsibility for ensuring that the action plan of the Strategy is progressed is devolved to iGIVE (the Implementation Group Inspiring Volunteering in Edinburgh) group. This is a sub group of the Edinburgh Compact Partnership.
Until October 2010 iGIVE was chaired by Andrew Jackson, Media and Public Affairs Manager at WRVS, with the secretariat for the group provided by Lara Celini at Volunteer Centre Edinburgh. Harriet Eadie is currently serving as Interim Chair.
iGIVE includes representatives from the voluntary and community sector, and public and statutory sector, including Canongate Youth Project, the City of Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh Interfaith Association, Jobcentre Plus, NHS Lothian, Scottish Business in the Community, Skills Development Scotland and WRVS. Each representative on iGIVE undertakes to champion volunteering and progress the strategy action plan within their own agencies and communities of interest.
Volunteering Strategy Priorities:
1.People in Edinburgh are inspired to volunteer
- the opportunity gap in volunteering is closed
- Edinburgh is a city of lifelong volunteering
- volunteering is actively promoted throughout the city
2. People have an excellent volunteering experience
- a stronger volunteering infrastructure is developed
- agencies are supported in improving practice in working with volunteers
- volunteering is rewarded and recognised
- new volunteering opportunities are developed city-wide
3. Volunteering is sufficiently resourced
- there is investment in infrastructure to achieve aims 1 and 2
- partners sign up to resourcing the strategy actions
You can view a PDF of Inspiring Volunteering: a volunteering strategy for Edinburgh here.
iGIVE (Implementation Group) Members
Bill Anderson, Skills Development Scotland
Sarah Bryson, City of Edinburgh Council
Harriet Eadie, Volunteer Centre Edinburgh (also serves on Compact Partnership)
Nina Giles Edinburgh & Lothian Racial Equality Council (ELREC)
Linda Hamilton, VCE Board & Area Manager for Cancer Research UK
Marion Joass, Local Partnership Manager, Jobcentre Plus
Stuart Mair Canongate Youth Project
Moira Tasker, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice Edinburgh
James Tindell Scottish Business in the Community
David White Edinburgh CHP Assistant General Manager (NEELHP & SEELHP)
Former members of iGIVE:
Andrew Jackson, WRVS and Chair of iGIVE - until 25/10/2010
Tom Lea, Edinburgh Interfaith Association - until 25/10/2010
Tim Montgomery NHS Lothian - until 18/01/2010
Alastair McInness, Local Partnership Manager, Jobcentre Plus - until 25/10/2010
Download iGIVE papers (including Minutes and Agendas) from the Compact Website.
Download the Role and Remit of iGIVE
The next iGIVE meetings are on:
Tuesday 29th March at Volunteer Centre Edinburgh from 9.30am – 12noon,
Tuesday 28th June at Lyndean House, 199 Commercial Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6QP and Tuesday 11th October 2011at Volunteer Centre Edinburgh from 9.30am – 12noon.
- Paul Wilson – 30 June 2010