Like so many other areas of society, coronavirus has caused a huge shift in the way that community transport is operating at the moment. Since lock-down began, we’ve been surveying over 200 CTA members to get a clear picture of the changes that have taken place across the sector.
Having a strong and effective board is extremely important to ensure that your organisation meets its legal obligations and charitable objectives. As these positions are voluntary and can involve a significant time commitment, it can sometimes be difficult to recruit trustees with the skills, knowledge and experiences that you are looking for. We’ve put together this toolkit designed to support you when developing your trustee recruitment process.
We’ve put together some top tips to support you to retain existing and new volunteers. Once you have recruited the right volunteers for your organisation it is essential to deploy effective volunteer retention strategies that will keep your volunteers coming back to fulfil new and exciting opportunities for your organisation. Remember, it is the people that make an organisation great – the happiness and wellbeing of your volunteers should be placed at the forefront of all your decision-making processes.
To attract and retain volunteers, it’s important to create a unique and purposeful experience to ensure volunteers remain committed to giving their time to your organisation. This document outlines a number of ways in which your organisation can recruit and retain volunteers to ensure the sustainability of services in the long term. It’s important to remember that the most essential resource of any organisation is its people.
On Friday 06 December, the judgement on the Judicial Review taken by the Bus and Coach Association against the Department for Transport was given. The judgement dismisses the Bus and Coach Association’s case, rejecting their claim that the Department for Transport had acted unlawfully in its actions relating to the regulation of community transport. Judges also refused to grant a legal declaration as to what exclusively non-commercial purposes means and how it should be applied in relation to section 19 and 22 permits.
Anyone who has experience with the community transport sector will know just how much value it creates. Whether it’s social value or economic value, the work of our members means that people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to access conventional public transport are still able to get involved in their community, see friends and family, attend medical appointments, access education, employment, social opportunities and much more. But how do we measure and define the enormous social value that community transport creates in a way that helps other people see what we see every day?
