Finding Skill Based Volunteers to Support Your Charity

Has your charity been helped by an expert volunteer? Maybe you need to give your data collection a boost or plan to produce a video and don’t have the skills in-house? Or have a legal or management issue or resolve? If you haven’t thought about skills-based volunteering before, this new article from Zurich Insurance looks at how it could help your charity. It includes useful tips from people working in this area and links to organisations who connect charities with volunteers.

Most small charities are powered by a band of volunteers who roll up their sleeves and get stuck in. Many charities would not be able to operate without them. They bring their time, commitment and expertise to make a difference.

Charities also use volunteers to support operational aspects of their work. From IT projects to strategy planning, resolving legal issues to building a marketing campaign; a volunteer can bring their expertise to help to solve a problem or accelerate a project.

Read the full Zurich article by clicking here.