WWV Volunteering Certificates are for volunteers of any age. There are four WWV certificates available to certify 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 with £2 in stamps to:

WorldWide Volunteering
7 North Street Workshops
Stoke sub Hamdon
Somerset
TA14 6QR

Your certificate will be posted to you within two weeks.  As we are a charity, 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 gold certificate and now qualify for platinum, send your 100 hour log sheet(s) to us detailing the month in which you received your gold certificate.

Congratulations to all volunteers 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.

Within a school environment our guidelines are as follows:
a.    should be helping others, e.g. helping younger pupils to learn to read
but
b.    should not be part of the normal school timetable, but should be done in the student’s own time;
c.    should not be part of normal school extra-curricular activities, e.g. school plays and concerts, sports matches;
d.    should not be part of a school work experience programme;
e.    should not be part of normal school duties and life, eg showing prospective parents round the school