Here's some tips if you are an organisation looking to include volunteers.
- Concentrate on ability rather than disability
- Listen to the volunteer; they understand their impairment best
- Remember what the volunteer can do for you, not what you can do for them
- Be clear and consistent about the role and the volunteer’s responsibility to the organisation
- Be prepared to have some flexibility around role descriptions
- Think outside the box
- Ask the volunteer about their communication needs
- Address negative attitudes towards disability - whether from staff, other volunteers or clients
- Prepare to challenge and to be challenged.
- Make sure volunteers with disability feel part of the team
Information sourced from Scope UK
