1. Volunteering Lincolnshire Caty Collier / Gill Williamson

2. Purpose Needs identified by the TLI group: Greater understanding of the range and diversity of volunteering, and its part within the whole scope of civil society and community action Greater understanding of the dynamics of volunteering – the drivers and the environments that enable volunteering to flourish Greater recognition of the need to invest in and support volunteer-involving organisations in order to achieve high quality volunteering opportunities

3. Aims Act as the voice on volunteering issues in Lincolnshire Collectively promote, support and develop volunteering across the county Build cross-sector relationships that help to develop a positive environment for volunteering Enable and encourage networking, learning and collaboration on volunteering issues Promote access to quality volunteering opportunities for all residents, particularly those under-represented in volunteering

4. Membership Steering group of up to 8, from Involving Lincs full member organisations Wider membership of Involving Lincs full/associate members Benefits: –Low cost publicity through joint action –Networking / peer learning –Opportunities for joint tendering

5. How the group will run Meetings of steering group every 6 months Scope for additional working groups Role and responsibilities of chair, host and minute taker rotate amongst steering group members Additional role on steering group for ‘webnag’ - to check Involving Lincs website activity and prompt contributions

6. Activities could include: Promote and maintain Involving Lincs website volunteering pages - gateway to volunteering Collective promotional activity, eg countywide volunteering awards/celebration Campaigns and advocacy, eg Volunteers Week, volunteering within public services Take forward key themes arising from the Transforming Local Infrastructure programme, eg reducing barriers to volunteering Identify and co-ordinate opportunities for joint volunteering projects

7. Progress so far First meeting Sept 2013 Task group on volunteer recognition awards – 18 Nov 2013, Lincoln Next full meeting - 3 March 2014, Grantham

8. Volunteering Lincolnshire What could we achieve by working better together? Are the priorities right? How else could collaborative working benefit volunteering in Lincs?