Skill

National Bureau for Students with Disabilities - Empowering young people and adults with any kind of disability to realise their potential.

Volunteering Opportunities:

Skill wants bring together the best of existing and dormant policies for recruiting and supporting disabled volunteers. Find what works or needs changing.

If you work for a volunteering organisation that has had no direct links with disabled volunteers but would like to explore ways of their inclusion into your place of work - we would value your input too. Visit http://www.skill.org.uk/vol/org_questionnaire.asp to complete our quick o­nline questionnaire.

We would also like to hear from active disabled volunteers living in London. Regardless of your disability or background we want draw o­n your personal experiences. Visit http://www.skill.org.uk/vol/vol_questionnaire.asp to complete our quick o­nline questionnaire.

About Skill

Skill promotes opportunities to empower young people and adults with any kind of disability to realise their potential in further, continuing and higher education, training and employment throughout the United Kingdom.

The charity works by providing information and advice to individuals, promoting good practice and influencing policy in partnership with disabled people, service providers and policy makers.

Following a successful pilot scheme involving disabled volunteers in our London and Edinburgh offices we have recently secured funding from the City Parochial Foundation to research and promote disabled access to volunteering in London.

Some organisations have positive experiences of working with disabled volunteers. However a great majority are reluctant to take o­n this group due concerns about providing support and indeed assumptions about their abilities.

As part of the 18-month research project o­ne of our primary aims is to consult with a range of London based organisations currently working with disabled volunteers or that have done so in the past.

Skill has produced 2 booklets o­n the subject of volunteering ‘Disability Equality in Volunteering’ - aimed at organisations and ‘Into Volunteering’ - for potential volunteers. The information gathered from this project will form the basis of a 'How to' resource pack - also aimed at organisations.

Skill Coverage
All of London

Find out more by contacting Skill:

Rhoda Otite
Rhoda@skill.org.uk

Tel: 020 7450 0646
Website: www.skill.org.uk/vol/

Address:
Chapter House
18-20 Crucifix Lane
London SE1 3JW