Volunteering

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To make volunteering a more enjoyable and rewarding experience, volunteers need to be supported by programmes and initiatives on clearly defined pathways, that provide a number of opportunities. Although there are many volunteering initiatives, LRS have been working hard as a partnership to support the following initiatives:

Leicester-Shire & Rutland Sport are keen to keep and develop Sports Leaders leadership skills, so that they can become part of the local infrastructure that we need to keep the citizens of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland healthy and active.

View our Sports Leaders UK page to learn more about opportunities for you to develop your leadership skills within Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland

Personal Best

Personal Best is an exciting pre-employment programme designed to harness the unique motivating force of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to engage workless and socially excluded people with learning and opportunities in the labour market, lift their aspirations and create new life or career choices through volunteering.  Personal Best is being managed jointly by Leicester College and b-inspired and supported by the Sports Volunteering Sub-group. Go to www.personalbestprogramme.co.uk/ to find out more.

Sport@VAL

Is a project based at Voluntary Action LeicesterShire which aims to directly address the lower than average numbers of Leicester City residents who volunteer in sport. This is done through working with local clubs and organisations, community groups and National Governing Bodies of sport to raise the profile of sports volunteering and increase the number of sports opportunities available in the Leicester City. The project also recruits sports volunteers and provides advice and support to people wanting to volunteer in sport.

V-Active is an initiative in Rutland working towards developing sport and physical activity volunteering opportunities. Working with a number of partners to support the local community, it builds links into local sports clubs, providing opportunities for people of all ages to get the most out of volunteering.