Volunteering

Volunteering has many benefits. For example, it can be very rewarding to engage with something worthwhile, you can improve your health and well-being through meaningful social contact and you might even enhance your career prospects by something new.

CFO, alongside other organisations, offer training and information to strengthen and support community groups, volunteering and community led social action. See below for a summary of ways we can help. For more information or a more details discussion please email [email protected]  or call 01865 883488.

Resources and workshops

  • Ways to Volunteer
  • Keeping your community vibrant and active
  • Identifying volunteering issues facing community groups
  • Getting people involved in positions of responsibility
  • Strategies for getting people involved

Attracting the Unusual Suspects Volunteering Toolkit (or browse by section below)

Training 

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