Westmeath Community Development

Your Group
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Some Good info 
for your group

• 95 Ways to recognise volunteers

• All Volunteer Groups Fact sheet

• All-volunteer groups groups & how they can function effectively

• Celebrating diversity

• Charter for effective volunteering

• Step by Step Guide to Volunteering

• Ideas for December 5

• Recognising Volunteers

• Recognizing our Volunteers

• Why organisations involve volunteers

Having a Meeting?
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Some great information to get the most out of your meetings!

• 20 Questions members should know the answer to

• Chair Cheat Sheet

• Volunteer Involvement Seven Stages

• Effective Meetings

• Example Ledger for Volunteer Groups

• West Limerick Resources are your local Partnership Development Company

• Insurance made Easy

• Members roles and responsibilities

• Minutes Sheet

• Preparing for an AGM

• Role of Chairperson

• Role of Secretary

• Role of Treasurer

• Rules & Constitution Template

• Setting up a new group

Managing Volunteers
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To help you manage 
your volunteers

• Celebrating diversity

• Managing Volunteers Practice Guide

• Volunteer role Descriptions

• Screening and selecting volunteers

• Supervising Volunteers

• The Top Ten Reasons why volunteers leave unexpectedly

• Training Volunteers

• Volunteer Expenses

• Volunteer policies

• When the role doesn't suit the volunteer

• Working with Volunteers with Disability

• Young worker tips

Policies
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Sample policies and guides to developing your own!

• Basic Volunteer Policy

• Bullying Policy

• Childcare Policy

• Developing a Policy

• Developing a Policy

• Step by Step Guide to Volunteer Policy Development

• Equal Opportunities

• Get it Right from the Start

• Public Complaints

• Sample volunteer agreement one

• Staff Policy

• Volunteer Policy

Forms
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Registration Forms

• Organisation/Group Registration Form

• Opportunity Registration Form

• Volunteer Registration

Volunteer Centre 
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Some good info from the Volunteer Centre

• Employees

• Employer supported volunteering

• Family Guide

• Garda Vetting

• Insurance for volunteers

• Placement Service role

• Practice Guidelines Voluntary Groups

• Volunteering facts Ireland

• Volunteering jargon buster

Your Volunteer 
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It's all about you.  
Know what's what!

• Barriers to volunteering

• Definition of Volunteering

• Dos and Don'ts for technical assistance volunteers

• How to Know when Not to Volunteer

• Ode to Volunteers

• YOUR RIGHTS AS A VOLUNTEER

• Ten Tips for a wise volunteering choice

• Virtual volunteering

• REACH YOUR RIGHTS AS A VOLUNTEER

• What Are the Benefits of Volunteering

Fundraising
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Need more funds?  
These documents should help!

• FUNDING SOURCES

• Your Organisation Event Flyer

Safety
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Lots of good info 
here about safety

• Back Pain

• Departmental SAFETY STATEMENT

• Ergonomics in the Workplace

• Guidelines on First Aid at Places of Work

• Prevention and Resolution of Bullying at Work

• Prevention of Workplace Bullying

• Providing Young Volunteers with a Healthy and Safe Working Environment

• REGULATORY IMPACT ASSESSMENT

• RiskAssessmentTool1-2

• RiskAssessmentTool3-4

• SHWW 2005 ActGuide

Useful Applications 
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Applications to help you with grants and budgets

• Apply Yourselves Software

• Budget Yourselves Software

Media 
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Download our 
Volunteering Video

Volunteer Video

Posters

• 100Yrs from now

• 100Yrs

• Courage

• If you can dream it

• Posters

• The most wasted of all days

• The world is so full

• What is this life