Volunteering

CAVO works to support organisations with the practical aspects of working with volunteers successfully and promotes and highlights volunteering opportunities in Ceredigion.
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Provides information and support to your organisation on how to reach out to a diverse range of volunteers.  

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Supports your organisation to create attractive volunteering opportunities.

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Helps you to review your volunteering policy, safeguarding procedures and quality standards.

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Promotes volunteering opportunities to individuals through a range of sources.

I want to Volunteer

It’s brilliant to hear that you want to volunteer, we can help you with:-

  • Information on volunteering
  • Advice on the right opportunity for you
  • Help and support during your volunteering journey
  • Training and events including Volunteering Fairs

I missed a Volunteering Fair!

Volunteering Fairs are a great way to hear directly from local groups, organisations and charities that are looking for volunteers.

Our Volunteering Fairs have gone virtual so don’t worry if you missed one, you can watch the recordings here:

We need Volunteers!

It’s great to hear you are looking for volunteers. Here’s what you can do:-

I Manage Volunteers

If you work with volunteers, or would like to, we can help you with:-

  • Joining the Ceredigion Volunteer Organisers Network (CVON)
  • Developing policy and procedure
  • Help and support with volunteer recruitment
  • Training and events

Latest Volunteering News

Understanding Mental Health and Volunteering

Understanding Mental Health and Volunteering

An awareness of the mental health and well-being of all volunteers is important in providing a welcoming, safe and meaningful volunteering opportunity in which volunteers can thrive and support your organisation to make a difference. Good quality volunteering...

Volunteer at the Penparcau Community Forum!

Penparcau Community Forum is looking for more volunteers! Watch their volunteers in action and hear about why they volunteer. For more information email contact@penparcau.cymru https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOMD1dnkilo

Finding the right voluntary role for you

Finding the right voluntary role for you

Are you thinking about volunteering but just don’t know where to start? Have a look at www.volunteering-wales.net for a list of voluntary roles available to you. If you see something that interests you click ‘enquire now’ to receive the relevant contact...

Celebrate Volunteers’ Week 2020

Celebrate Volunteers’ Week 2020

Volunteers’ Week is a ‘time to celebrate’! It’s an annual UK wide celebration of volunteers taking place each year between 1-7 June and the perfect time to say a big ‘thank you’ to your volunteers.   It is also a chance to highlight the variety of volunteer roles...

Volunteering for Health – celebrating 10 years

Volunteering for Health – celebrating 10 years

Hywel Dda University Health Board’s flagship Volunteering for Health programme was ten years old in October. Volunteers, staff, partners and supporters came together to celebrate with stories, balloons and cake. Today all Health Boards in Wales have their volunteering...

Hywel Dda Community Health Council Reports

Hywel Dda Community Health Council Reports

The CHC represent independently and without bias the interests of patients and the public in the way that NHS services are planned and provided across the counties of Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire. Please help by sharing your NHS experiences with us...

Need help with volunteering-wales.net?

Need help with volunteering-wales.net?

Fiona Liddell, Volunteering Development Manager WCVA, describes some of the assistance that is available to those looking for volunteers through the new volunteering platform. The new volunteering website is up and running but it is still unfamiliar to most of us. It...

New Quay Community Library

New Quay Community Library

Learn more about how New Quay took over the local authority run library and turned it into a community library run entirely by volunteers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivni6C8qZZw