SRA Volunteer Programme Fiona Thompson Volunteering and Campaigns Coordinator

Current Volunteering 45 Volunteers Range of roles – Working Group, Network Coordinator, Campaign Volunteer Volunteers from across Scotland Network Groups Commitment, skills, energy, knowledge - valuable

Volunteer Campaign Training

Scotland’s volunteering landscape Rates of volunteering dropping * % Adults *Scottish Household Survey 2007-14 Generally not good news for volunteering – vol scotland does not know why – bust suggests flexibility may help - but it does make us work harder and re think how we do things

Volunteering with SRA Removing barriers: - Flexible -’Micro-volunteering’ - Volunteer-led Link between volunteering and physical health and mental wellbeing!! To move forward and create a rural movement , sra want to encourage volunteering in a flexible and creative way

Get involved Range of roles – Volunteer page on website SRP 2018 Consultation Events Local Democracy – feed in your experience Rural Transport Campaign SRA Campaign Toolkit Connect with us in any way!

Contact details Fiona Thompson Volunteering and Campaigns Coordinator Scottish Rural Action fiona@sra.scot 07388907367