Guidelines for achieving a Certificate of Volunteering Achievement: There are four WWV certificates certifying your voluntary work:
Bronze for achieving 25 hours of volunteering
Silver for achieving 50 hours of volunteering
Gold for achieving 100 hours of volunteering
Platinum for achieving 250 hours of volunteering
To obtain one of these certificates, download the log sheet and print it out. Take it with you to your place of volunteering and complete it as required, ensuring that it is signed by your supervisor. Please read the guidelines below relating to what is and what is not accepted as voluntary work. Once you have completed the required number of hours, post the log sheet to:
WorldWide Volunteering
7 North Street Workshops
Stoke sub Hamdon
Somerset
TA14 6QR Your certificate will be posted to you within a few days. As we are a charity, we are sorry but certificates will only be posted to addresses in the United Kingdom. If you already have a bronze certificate and subsequently qualify for a silver certificate, send your second log sheet of 25 hours to us informing us in which month you received your bronze certificate and we will despatch your silver. Similarly if you have a silver certificate and now qualify for gold, send your 50-hour log sheet(s) to us detailing the month in which you received your silver certificate. Congratulations to all those who qualify for a certificate!
Guidelines on Volunteering as recognised by WWV :
As a charity we have to differentiate between volunteering and work experience and to help us in this, we adhere to the definition of volunteering as decreed by Volunteering England which is: ‘activity which involves spending time, unpaid, doing something which aims to benefit someone (individuals or groups) other than or in addition to close relatives, or to benefit the environment'.
We further maintain that there must be a cause to volunteering and it should be for a charity or not-for-profit organisation. Examples of the difference between volunteering and work experience are: working for a business (chemist, dentist, restaurant etc) is classified by WWV as work experience and not volunteering. Helping younger pupils at your school or college is voluntary work. Religious work should be for the good of the community and not, in itself, limited only to proselytising or promoting the religious cause. |
