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 Subject Guide: Rural and Remote Volunteering: a great way to strengthen communities
For volunteers, organisations, managers and trainers who would like to learn more about volunteering as a way of strengthening rural and remote communities.
This Subject Guide consists of a downloadable PDF guide, Rural and remote volunteering: a great way to strengthen communities, and this online list of resources concerned with volunteering in rural and remote communities.
Help keep this guide current
These resources will be updated annually, so if you know of a resource that you think would be of interest and value to others please email volaus@volunteeringaustralia.org your suggestion. |
COMING SOON!
1: Fast facts – Gain an understanding of issues related to volunteering in rural and remote communities
2: Training materials – Build your skills and knowledge and train others in your organisation
3: Research findings, reports and journal articles – Extend your understanding of this subject
4: Event Volunteering - Take a Closer Look – Key issues for people in rural and remote areas working as or engaging with volunteers
Definition of ‘Rural and remote’ as used in this Subject Guide.
Rural and remote is a term that can encompass a wide range of localities, from small towns and villages to large regional centres. For the purposes of this subject guide the term will refer to any area that is not classified as a city.
Resources
National Standards for involving volunteers in not-for-profit organisations
2nd edition, 2001, pp. 27-32
The standards cover 8 areas -
1. Policies and Procedures
2. Management Responsibility
3. Recruitment, selection and orientation
4. Work and the workplace
5. Training and development
6. Service Delivery
7. Documentation and records
8. Continuous improvement.
These standards can be used in a number of ways:
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as an audit tool that provides an overall appreciation of where the not for profit organisation is placed with respect to best management practice for volunteer involvement;
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as a guideline or checklist to help identify opportunities for making improvements;
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as a framework of reference to assist in planning and establishing a new volunteer service;
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as a baseline from which progress in making improvements can be monitored and measured.
Copyright owner/publisher: Volunteering Australia
More resources to come later in 2008, including:
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local government
http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/regional/communities/reports/index.aspx
This webpage will take you to a series of Community Research Reports including:
Denmark and surrounding districts (WA)
Shire of Griffith (NSW)
Ceduna (SA)
Tennant Creek (NT)
Hamilton (Vic)
Devonport (Tas)
Cloncurry (Qld)
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