Volunteer Trip to Chartwell

We are planning our annual volunteer trip to Chartwell House in Kent for September. 

Chartwell is a beautiful National Trust property famous for being the family home of prime minister Winston Churchill. This will be a great opportunity to see the historic house, find out what they offer visitors and meet other volunteers.

You may have already taken part in a poll to find a date, however due to staff changes we are having to move the trip a bit later in the year.

The new proposed date will be one of:

 Sunday 11 September

 Sunday 18 September

 Sunday 25 September

Please follow the link to the doodle poll to let us know which dates you can do, before Wednesday 18 May. We'll pick the day most volunteers can make.

Volunteer Survey Results

The results of the recent Volunteer Survey were revealed during the last Volunteer Forum.  For those of you didn’t attend the meeting, here is a sum-up of the results.

• The number of responses from beekeeper, garden and sewing bee volunteers are up from 2013, and we now have a fundraising assistant and grounds warden whilst the numbers of learning/education assistants and tour guides for historic tours are lower than last year.
• The number of people who have volunteered for over 10 years (but under 20) almost doubled from 2013.
•  People volunteering more than once a week or fortnightly were also up from 2013.
• Overall volunteers seem more pleased with their experience volunteering.
•  The number of volunteers enjoying the work they do at the Palace rose slightly.
•  More volunteers are satisfied with the way volunteering is organised in the 2014 survey than the previous year and also about the amount of training available to support the work they do and the extent to which their skill and experience is used effectively.
•  More volunteers feel they are kept well informed about the Palace and the Park’s priorities in 2014 than 2013, and also about important changes in the way things are done, that managers take time explaining why and that they can express their opinion on how things are run.
• A higher number feel there are opportunities to do new things and take on new responsibilities in the recent survey than in 2013 and that their views are listened to.
• The number of volunteers wanting to be involved in heritage rose slightly.
• A slightly higher number see volunteering as an opportunity to enhance their CV although a large number feel ‘neutral’ or disagree with this statement.
• A smaller number of volunteers see volunteering as an opportunity to learn new skills in 2014 than 2013.

Click on the images below for the comparison charts.