How can volunteering be more inclusive?
As part of the national and regional Volunteering for Health programme, Norfolk & Waveney CICs and charities are working with people with health inequalities to explore and address their barriers and enablers to volunteering, during 2025-26.
We are working specifically with neuro divergent people including those with Learning Disabilities, autism and other types of neuro-diversity, as well as young people with care experience.
We've been helping to co-produce supported volunteering and volunteering-readiness projects with participants and organisations to really understand what helps them to volunteer, and what stops them.
We gathered the learning from the first round of projects and share the Key Findings below.
We also begin to discuss how we can best develop good inclusive volunteering during a webinar, linked below.
Read our latest Reports and Recommendations on Inclusive Volunteering at : Get InVOLved Innovation Fund | Get Involved Skills
Watch the webinar where we launched the Recommendations and shared the learning about making volunteering more inclusive from the Volunteering for Health Innovations projects in Norfolk & Waveney: https://youtu.be/32kS8LOc5Hg
Read about the specially commissioned Community Voices project which documents the conversations with young people from care and their communities, and their thoughts on volunteering: Get InVOLved Innovation Fund | Get Involved Skills
Coming Up....what happens now? How do we respond, as the VCFSE and Health Sectors to the Recommendations that people with Health Inequalities have told us?