5.9 Managing Saltire Awards for Young People5.9.1 What are Saltire Awards?
Saltire Awards is the Scottish Government’s national youth volunteer awards. They celebrate, recognise and reward the commitment, contribution and achievements of young volunteers in Scotland, aged between 12 and 25. Young people gain nationally recognised certificates, signed by Scottish Government Ministers, for the different amounts of volunteering they do. Saltire Awards help young volunteers to reflect on, capture and communicate their learning and development gained through their volunteering. The marketing and development of Saltire Awards is coordinated at a national level by Voluntary Action Scotland www.vascotland.org Saltire Awards are delivered in West Lothian by VSGWL There are four milestones to the Awards designed to help you celebrate your volunteering journey:
5.9.2 How can organisations offer awards to young volunteers? You can sign up your organisation to deliver Saltire awards to young volunteers. Simply complete the Organisation Registration Form in our Resource Library and email completed form to vsg@vsgwl.org and one of our advisors will contact you. 5.9.3 What is expected from Organisations? Once you have registered your organisation to participate in the Saltire Awards Scheme you can promote the awards with your young volunteers and offer them support to sign up online. Young volunteers create an online account on the Saltire awards website www.saltireawards.org.uk A Saltire Manual is available to assist and can be found in our document library. After your young volunteers register themselves online they can manage their volunteering roles, add their volunteering hours and claim their Saltire certificates. When a young person claims a certificate VSGWL will contact the named supervisor of the organisation(s) they volunteer with. After the supervisor has verified their volunteering hours we will issue the Saltire certificate. Some initial things for organisations to consider include:
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topics1.0 Getting Started
2.0 Developing and Growing 3.0 Taking on an Asset 4.0 What is Social Enterprise? 5.0 Volunteering 5.1 A Good Volunteer Policy 5.2 Essential Policies 5.3 Best Practice Guidance 5.4 Before You Recruit 5.5 Recruiting Volunteers 5.6 Supporting Volunteers 5.7 Recognising and Valuing Volunteers 5.8 Volunteer Friendly 5.9 Managing Saltire Awards for Young People 6.0 Funding 7.0 Dissolving an Organisation |
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