Funding secured to support more inclusive volunteering in Stockport

Sector 3 are working with GM Moving, Seashell Trust and Breakthrough UK on a project to encourage more volunteers with disabilities to get involved. The training will be trialled with sports organisations initially as a test and learn approach.

The workshop package is the culmination of six months of scoping activities, with input from over 30 organisations ranging from allotments, football clubs to national sporting organisations.

The £1,000 funding from GM Moving will enable the delivery of three workshops on the themes of:

• Foundations for Change Framework for Disability Inclusion. To include the Social Model of disability and adapting environments to attract and support people with a disability to volunteer.

• Disability Awareness Training and how people with a range of needs and abilities might present in volunteering and the support required.

• Disability and Inclusion considerations in volunteer recruitment, compliance, onboarding and retention.

More details about the workshops will be shared in an upcoming VCFSE Bulletin.