Impact Assessment Toolkit

        



Why Use the Toolkit?
The Toolkit provides a comprehensive selection of methods and tools which measure and assess the effects of volunteering

What Does the Toolkit Measure?
The toolkit measures the impact of volunteering under the following areas; physical, human, economic, social and cultural capital

How Do You Use the Toolkit?
By using questionnaires with volunteers, staff and the community, conducting focus group discussions and applying innovative tools such as diaries and audit materials 

Toolkit Information   |   Case Study 1   |   Case Study 2   |   Case Study 3   |   Case Study 4-8

• Gain a greater understanding of HOW and WHY volunteering works in your organisation
• Gather evidence to support future funding bids
• Assess a wide range of impacts from skills assessment of volunteers to the economic contribution of volunteering to your organisation
• Explore positive / negative and intended / unintended impacts
• Compare results over time

How can you buy a copy of the toolkit?
The toolkit is available from Volunteer Development Scotland and costs £30.00 for VDS Members, £35.00 for non-members. To buy a copy please get in touch with us on 01786 479593 or email vds@vds.org.uk

We regularly run interactive seminars on how to use the toolkit. These full day seminars explore the nature of impact assessment and how volunteering impacts on;

• volunteers
• organisations
• the service user 
• the wider community

The seminars are fully interactive, using practical examples, simple tools and case studies to help you get the most out of the toolkit. They will focus on how to undertake an assessment, how to select a suitable approach, and how to analyse, interpret and make use the findings.

Please contact vds@vds.org.uk for further information.

The Institute for Volunteering Research and Volunteer Development Scotland are exploring the demand for online resources linked to the Volunteering Impact Assessment Toolkit, we are looking at the online possibilities to make the Toolkit more accessible.

 We would be grateful if you could fill in our online survey by clicking the link below.  There are only four questions and by answering them you will help us better understand what would be useful to your organisation. This short survey will take only a minute to complete.

 Toolkit Survey 

Volunteer Development Scotland has the only License Agreement with the Institute of Volunteering Research and is the sole provider of the Volunteering Impact Assessment Toolkit in Scotland.

The Toolkit and training module is licensed, not sold. Title and copyrights in and to the Module, documentation and any copies of the Module are owned by Institute of Volunteering Research. The copyright law protects the Volunteering Impact Assessment Toolkit and the Training Module.

The Volunteering Impact Assessment Toolkit is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade, or otherwise be lent, sold, hired out or otherwise circulated outside the purchaser’s organisation without the publisher’s prior permission.