Publication - Strategy/plan

Volunteering action plan

Published: 15 June 2022
Directorate: Public Service Reform Directorate
Topic: Arts, culture and sport, Children and families, Communities and third sector, +5 more … Environment and climate change, Equality and rights, Health and social care, Public sector, Ukraine
ISBN: 9781804354698

Scotland’s volunteering action plan aims to create a Scotland where everyone can volunteer, more often, and throughout their lives. Designed to provide actions over a 10‐year period as a living plan. It seeks to raise the profile of volunteering and its impact on society.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1. Volunteering for All: Our National Framework - Scottish Government (2019)

2. Volunteering for All: Our National Framework - Scottish Government (2019) p.19

3. Ibid, p.37

4. Literature Review to Inform the Development of Scotland's Volunteering Outcomes Framework: People, Communities and Places Rutherford, A., Bu, F., Dawson, A., McCall, V. (2019); University of Strathclyde

5. The Road to Recovery: Lessons learned from Scotland's volunteering response to COVID-19 - Volunteer Scotland (2022)

6. Understanding Volunteering Impact Measurement Practices Across Scotland - Children's Hospices Across Scotland and Volunteer Scotland (2018)

7. The Road to Recovery: Lessons learned from Scotland's volunteering response to COVID-19 - Volunteer Scotland (2022)

8. Human Learning Systems: Public Services for the Real World - Brogan, A. et al. (2021) p. 102

9. Game Over. Play Again? Complexity and Citizen Engagement in a Post-Social-Media World Snowdon, D. video

10. Webpage for Saltire Awards

11. Webpage for Volunteer Friendly

12. MILO is a data management and reporting platform used by Third Sector Interfaces (TSIs). It enables TSIs to promote local volunteering opportunities and supports volunteers across Scotland.

13. Development a national volunteer passporting scheme - NCVO, blog (2021)

14. The Road to Recovery: Lessons learned from Scotland's volunteering response to COVID-19 - Volunteer Scotland (2022)

15. Ibid.

16. Scottish Third Sector Perspectives on volunteering during COVID-19: Survey Report - Scottish Government (2022)

17. Connections and cross-sector working during coronavirus (COVID-19) Sharp, C.; Research for Real (2021)

18. Storm Arwen Review - Scottish Government (2022)

19. The Road to Recovery: Lessons learned from Scotland's volunteering response to COVID-19 - Volunteer Scotland (2022)

20. Digital Inclusion' - guidance, resources, and case studies- SCVO website

21. Volunteering Action Canvases

22. 'Longlist of Actions and Ideas'

23. See Volunteering Action Canvases

24. The latest version of the Volunteering Action Canvases is available via this Google Spreadsheet