Giving White Paper: Results for Volunteers and Voluntary Activity? Spring 2011, informed by the GIVES Green Paper Briefing with thanks to Volunteering England London’s leading voice for volunteering

“Our ambition is to stimulate a step change in giving” Ministers Francis Maude and Nick Hurd The White Paper puts forward a mix of ways in which the Government does or will support a wide range of initiatives under these headings: 1. Making it easier to give 2. Making it more compelling to give 3. Better support for those providing and managing opportunities to give Over £40 million to support volunteering and social action over two years in an Infrastructure Fund and a Social Action Fund, as well as plans for Challenge Prizes and a Giving Summit in Autumn London’s leading voice for volunteering

Infrastructure Fund £30 million over two years delivered by the Big Lottery Fund (who will add further funding) to help “both general and volunteering infrastructure organisations to modernise and improve the relevance of their services” for frontline civil society organisations To: support the development of more efficient local hubs to offer better integrated support services for frontline civil society organisations; Support an effective online resource bank for frontline civil society organisations; Establish much stronger local partnerships between civil society organisations, local businesses and the local statutory sector Development of new services and redesign of existing ones New partnerships, alliances, mergers, shared back office provision Staff training for new roles Purchasing expert advice and support This includes training for volunteer management, so as “to boost the quality of existing experiences for volunteers” London’s leading voice for volunteering

Social Action Fund £10 million across two years to build new social norms and scale up some of the best ideas for engaging people; to invite ideas and to favour proposals from organisations that have a matched funding commitment Priority areas and groups are identified as: 2012 Olympics and the volunteers signed up to support the Games Graduates of National Citizen Service (NCS) to sustain the projects they developed Schoolchildren, match funding schools-based giving programmes Encouraging participation among the Baby-Boomer generation Training voluntary volunteer managers to support charities, including ex-civil servants Schemes for giving time flexibly eg Slivers-of-Time, self-managed volunteering pilots, citizen- led self–regulation New models of reciprocity eg complementary currencies, time-banking Support for accessibility and inclusiveness, under-represented and priority groups, including faith communities London’s leading voice for volunteering

Challenge Prizes To reward the best solutions for a series of volunteer challenges, including mobile phone apps and citizen-led self–regulation; 1. Charities or social enterprises claim prizes with their own entries 2. Other entrants donate winnings to a charity or social enterprise London’s leading voice for volunteering

Other opportunities and developments 1.Support for Do-It: £1million to support the national database 2.Removing barriers and red tape: CRBs; citizen-led regulation; volunteer expenses 3.Ministers’ One Day Challenge: civil servants’ civic service; to register interest in taking on civil service volunteers 4.Flexible, non-traditional methods of volunteering or brokering volunteering: internet platforms, social media; smartphone apps Non-traditional approaches should “complement other means of volunteering, rather than replace it” London’s leading voice for volunteering

1.What will you do next with the outcomes of these workshops? 2.In what ways would you like GLV to support you as a result of this White Paper? 3.What points do you feel are most important to feed up to Volunteering England in terms of further lobbying or support around the implementation of the White Paper proposals? London’s leading voice for volunteering