This week has been about reviewing and taking a long, hard look at ourselves - both generally and specifically in the way we care for our volunteers.
We have been ploughing on with SUEI this week, looking at the second of five themes; ‘What is the Union trying to achieve?’ which concentrates on how we set objectives, vision and yearly plans as well other bits and pieces.
Also this week, we have progressed our efforts to acheive the ‘Investing in Volunteers’ (IIV) standard.
IIV is (to quote):
Investing in Volunteers is the UK quality standard for all organisations which involve volunteers in their work. The Standard enables organisations to comprehensively review their volunteer management, and also publicly demonstrates their commitment to volunteering.
We have been working to identify the areas where we are good, and where we need to improve – particularly in caring for volunteers and our day-to-day working. Lots of this work is policy based, but the eventual outcomes should be really good and visible from September onwards.
To finish of the week, I had an induction session with the new officer team, and a meeting with Chris C and the University about students working as exam invigilators – which is great news and more info will follow once we confirm the details!
Not the most exciting week to outside world, but to us it was productive and we moved forward with some big projects!
That’s all for now! See you next week 
