We are trying to:
1. Increase the quality of the current York volunteering offer
2. Raise the voice of the volunteer in designing York volunteering offers
In order to: make York the volunteering city of the UK by 2015
Initial thoughts of yearly focuses:
- Year 1: start small. Launch the volunteer charter, and signup 10 VCOs with the city-wide feedbackmechanism.
- Year 2: Grow VCO paid offer. Present 2013 survey results at conference focussing on quality. Implement charter champions throughout York. External investment required.
- Year 3: Commission research on what York’s non-volunteers might want. Build volunteer input: leading on the yearly survey, and support for the charter champions.
- Year 4: have a push on people-led volunteering projects in partnership with the universities. Link up volunteering and giving mechanisms, possibly http://geniusyork.com
- Year 5: work on a yearly menu of volunteering opportunities with a programme of city-wide involvement opportunities (following the Illuminate York model).
What model are we testing..?
- Co-create a city with volunteer actions driving influence and participatory budgeting..
- OR A new volunteer-led operating model for a city: co-ordinated, customer focussed and volunteer led.
- Hertfordshire, Bristol and Newham work on flexi-volunteering:
www.flexi-volunteering.com/the-nesta-project - Wigan creative councils bid focussing on social care volunteering and micro enterprises: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv_9FzhTx1g
reforms must be driven by the wishes of the users not the producers
the idea of a city-wide feedback mechanism balances some of the information asymmetry.
No comments:
Post a Comment