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WELCOME COMMUNITY PARTNERSThank you for your willingness to work with Nottingham Trent University (NTU) students in a volunteering experience! Volunteering allows students the opportunity to give back to the community, learn new skills, make new friends and experience the wider community they’re studying in. It also allows students to bring what they’re learning into the community. Students often comment that volunteering is their favourite and most meaningful element of their University experience. This has much to do with the fact that you as a Community Partner have the opportunity to contribute to their experience.

WHY BECOME A COMMUNITY PARTNER?There are around 27,000 students at NTU, spread across three campuses: City (NG1 4GH) Clifton (NG11 8NS) and Brackenhurst (NG25 0QF). There’s a variety of subjects taught at NTU, divided into the following schools:

• School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences• School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment• School of Art & Design• School of Arts and Humanities• Nottingham Business School• School of Education• The Graduate School• Nottingham Law School• School of Science and Technology• School of Social Sciences

NTU students have a wealth of skills, experience and qualifications which your organisation can tap into. NTSU Volunteering will promote your volunteering via its website, buildings, social media, drop ins and other forms of communication.

KEY POLICIESPlease ensure you are familiar with NTSU’s policies particularly those covering:Data protection - Safeguarding - Equality and diversity

You will find these at www.trentstudents.org/volunteering

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HOW TO REGISTERRegistering couldn’t be easier! All you will need is the following information to set up your profile:

• Organisation name• Organisation logo• Mini blurb about your organisation • Ensure you have public liability covering volunteers• A copy of your health and safety policy• Duty of care statement

This can be done via trentstudents.org/volunteering_organisations/new Please allow 24 hours for NTSU Volunteering to approve this registration.

HOW TO UPLOAD VOLUNTEERING OPTIONSOnce approved by NTSU Volunteering you can start uploading your volunteering opportunities. Follow this step-by-step guide on how to upload your opportunities.

Step one: Sign in

Be sure to log in as a non-student

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Step two: select Manage Opportunities

Step three: add a new opportunity and allow 24 hours for NTSU to approve it

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WHAT TO DO WHEN A STUDENT VOLUNTEER APPLIESYou will be notified via email once a volunteer applies to your role. A link in the email will take you to the log in page to allow you to collect the student’s contact details and approve/decline them.

Step two: See ‘Pending Approval’ volunteer and find contact details via the magnifying glass icon

Step one: Use the previous instructions to get to the Manage Opportunities page

Step three: Contact the volunteer and approve/decline as appropriate using the purple tick icon

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VOLUNTEER RECOGNITIONStudents can gain recognition for their extra curricular efforts. This includes:

• The Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR) that is included in their degree transcript at the end of every academic year

• Volunteer of the Month • NTSU Awards (May 2017)

Each month NTSU will contact you asking who has volunteered with you and the number of hours contributed. You can also approve student’s timesheets via the paper watch icon found under ‘Timesheet Requests’.

THANK YOU!Thank you once again for working alongside NTSU. If you have any

questions please don’t hesitate to contact NTSU Volunteer Coordinatorvolunteering@su.ntu.ac.uk 0115 848 6331