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Our volunteers
We are proud to have excellent people
volunteering with us, working alongside
our charity clients.
We are extremely grateful for the time,
skills and expertise our volunteers so
generously give to Cran昀椀eld Trust, our
charity clients and the wider voluntary
sector. We simply couldn’t provide our
services without them.
We are pleased to report another increase in the number
of volunteers who have joined us this year, with 225
new volunteer management professionals joining us
to share their skills, knowledge and expertise through
our range of free services. This takes the number of
available volunteers to 1,453. Across all our services,
Cran昀椀eld Trust volunteers provided over 20,000 hours
of management support to charities.
Our staff team work closely with volunteers, maintaining
contact and supporting them through our consultancy
projects and mentoring assignments. For these one
to one services, we try to match clients and volunteers
closely in terms of location, so that people from the
same geographical community are working together.
Where specialist skills are needed or local volunteers are
not available, we match clients and volunteers to work
remotely.
During the year, we ran four online induction/refresher
meetings for volunteers, and were delighted to be joined
at these by new and already committed volunteers.
Our volunteer hub holds information on our processes,
policies and guidance for volunteers working with
Cran昀椀eld Trust and our client charities.
“Cran昀椀eld Trust is an incredibly useful and
valuable resource for us; we have grown to
a size where we can’t quite afford technical
expertise in all the areas that we would
like, but have a real need for those areas
of expertise - the fact that Cran昀椀eld Trust
provides people with the right learning,
skills and experiences to meet our needs
and provide the required support is
amazingly helpful and valuable to us.
“Also, having a great team at Cran昀椀eld
Trust who are willing to work with us, listen
to what we feel we are after and need, and
are then able to 昀椀nd really good matches is
hugely appreciated.”
BS3 Community Development, Bristol
Business Plan Facilitation
“We were assigned a volunteer who had
the background knowledge to understand
our charity and the skills to guide us in the
right direction to achieve our goals. Our
volunteer was as dedicated to our cause as
we were.”
The John McNeill Opportunity Centre, Wiltshire
Business Planning project
“Lynn has been incredibly helpful and
so, so supportive, we really appreciate
everything Lynn has done to help us
develop in this area. We are now much
more knowledgeable and have the right
skills to push forward our marketing and
communications work. Lynn has given us
information and the con昀椀dence so that we
can move this work forward ourselves.”
Soundabout, Oxfordshire
Marketing and Communications Strategy
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