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company limited by guarantee) |
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| TRUSTEES
REPORT |
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THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2007 |
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| OBJECTIVES
AND ACTIVITIES |
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| Mission |
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| Volunteer
Centre Dacorum promotes, supports and develops volunteering throughout the
Borough of Dacorum. |
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organisation has provided a focus for volunteering in the Borough of Dacorum
for 36 years. It offers information and guidance to volunteers and to
volunteer-involving organisations and works with other agencies in the
overall development of the local voluntary sector. |
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| The vision is to develop a high profile
and high quality information resource and training centre for volunteers and
volunteer co-ordinators, and to ensure its services are accessible to
everyone in the Borough, regardless of geographical location, ethnicity, abilities,
interests, skills, gender, sexual orientation, age or employment status. |
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| Objects
of the charity: - |
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| 1. Brokerage. To
offer a brokerage service, matching both individuals and groups interested in
volunteering with appropriate opportunities in the local community. |
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| 2. Marketing. To
encourage local interest in volunteering using a variety of promotional and
marketing initiatives. |
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| 3. Good Practice. To
promote good practice in working with volunteers to all volunteer-involving
organisations. |
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| 4. Developing volunteering. To develop local volunteering opportunities in close
partnership with voluntary, statutory and private sectors, ensuring that
those who face barriers to volunteering are able to contribute. |
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| 5. Policy response. To identify and respond to proposals
or legislation that may impact on volunteering. |
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| 6. Strategic Development of volunteering. To network at a local, regional and national level in the
strategic development of volunteering. |
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| Charity’s
strategies |
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Volunteer Centre has clear strategies based on the 6 core objects of a Local
Volunteering Development Agency (above).
These objects also form the basis of: - |
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| Volunteering
England’s Quality Accreditation |
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| Performance
indicators in Dacorum Borough Council’s Partnership Agreement |
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| Volunteer
Centre Dacorum's Business Plan |
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| Cost
centres within accounting procedures |
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| Staff
reports to the Board of Trustees at quarterly meetings |
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