Volunteers and the Law

This session will be delivered online using Microsoft Teams.

Core Promise: Understand the legal boundaries and compliance requirements for involving volunteers — without jargon, confusion, or guesswork.

The Problem It Solves
Many organisations unintentionally break the law around volunteering roles, blurred boundaries, expenses, DBS checks, or safeguarding expectations.

What you will you learn
• Legal status of volunteers
• DBS requirements and myths
• Equality Act considerations
• Health & Safety
• Young volunteers & permits
• Insurance essentials
• GDPR considerations

Who It’s For
• Anyone responsible for volunteer involvement
• Anyone starting out/setting up within the VCFSE sector
• Trustees needing assurance
• Leaders updating policies
• Organisations preparing for audits, inspections, or funding applications
• Those responsible for writing volunteering related policies

Impact — What Changes
Previous participants report:
• Greater confidence in feeling up to date
• Rewriting policies, role descriptions and agreements
• Greater confidence managing risk
• Correctly applying DBS rules
• Clearer organisational procedures
Kerry from the Volunteering team will be taking you through this training session. Kerry has a background in Community development, volunteer coordination and is herself a volunteer. This experience helps Kerry to understand the challenges faced by those who manage volunteers and what it is like to be a volunteer.

If you wish to contact Kerry prior to the session to discuss any of your access needs, you can do so by emailing her on [email protected] or please ring the main reception to leave your contact information so you can be called back.
Tel: 01473 345400

This training session is being held on Microsoft TEAMS Please note you do not Microsoft account to access these. You can just click on ‘open in browser’

Please ensure that you are able to access the link in advance so that we can start the session on time. If you do not have aTEAMS account, you just click on the link and then use the ‘open in browser’ option.

Please ensure that you have your name correct.

If you discover you have any issues, please contact the office on 01473 345400 to raise this.