About the Award
The Investing in Volunteers Award is the only standard quality mark that focuses on volunteers, and is based on four areas of volunteer management – planning for volunteer involvement; recruiting, selecting and matching volunteers; as well as supporting and retaining volunteers.
COPE Galway was assessed against a range of best practice standards in August 2018. The audit involved meeting with over 30 volunteers, Board members and staff. We attained its quality mark standard on 28th October 2018.
Further information about Investing in Volunteers can be found on investinginvolunteers.org.uk.
COPE Galway have demonstrated a real commitment to volunteering and proven that their volunteer management policies and procedures meet nationally recognised standards.
Terri O’Brien
Volunteer Ireland
Quality and Programmes Manager