Involving disabled volunteers
We know that involving volunteers from diverse backgrounds with different life experiences enriches the organisation as well as providing real benefits to the volunteer. About 15 percent of the potential volunteers we work with tell us they have a disability or additional support needs.
Below are resources from other organisations to guide you in creating barrier free volunteering opportunities and recruiting and retaining your volunteers.
Scope
This information is aimed at disabled young volunteers, but the information is relevent regardless of age.
Read Scope's guide to involving young disabled people as volunteers (large pdf)
Disability Rights Commission (DRC)
Recruiting, retaining and developing disabled volunteers - guidance for volunteer opportunity providers.
Read the guidance from the Disabilty Rights Commission (pdf)
Mencap and Volunteering England
A guide for organisations who want to include and recruit volunteers who have a learning disability.
Read Mencap's guide to involving volunteers who have a learning disability (pdf)
Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID)
Information about volunteering when you have a hearing loss and about working with deaf or hard of hearing volunteers.
Read RNID's online resources (webpage)
DRC and RNID
The duty to provide a British Sign Language/English interpreter under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.