Two new Success Guides – on tackling chronic loneliness and improving access to high quality volunteering – alongside film toolkits now available.
Funded by the UK Government’s Know Your Neighbourhood Fund through Arts Council England (ACE), AIM Connected Communities offered grants of £15,000 – £100,000 to museums delivering projects to ‘improve community connections through high-quality volunteering opportunities and/or reduce loneliness and increase social bonds.’
Drawing on the experiences of the programme participants and research, Tonia Collett, with contributions from Ingrid Abreu Scherer, Jenni Waugh and Sophina Jagot, explores the objective of tackling chronic loneliness through museum and heritage-based programmes, delivering quality outputs that have a lasting impact in The AIM Guide to Tackling Chronic Loneliness.
The Success Guide to Improving Access to High-Quality Volunteering explores the definition of ‘high quality volunteering’ and what it means for your existing volunteer programme, selecting the partner organisations best placed to support your work, how to maintain initiatives long-term, and the benefit to your own organisational resilience.
Coordinated by Sophina Jagot, both guides also have an accompanying video toolkit to offer you another route into the guidance and this important area of practice.
And if you want to find out more, join Tonia Collett for two interactive webinars, discussing the highlights of each guide. Both are free to attend and open to anyone in the sector, you don’t have to be an AIM member to book a place.
- 11am 23 October – Tackling chronic loneliness
- 11am 13 November – Improving access to high quality volunteering.
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