Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of Resources summarising the successes of the Leeds Year of Volunteering 2010, providing background to the proposed work programme for 2011 and inviting consideration of the City Council’s own approach to volunteering.

The Director of Adult Social Care submitted a report summarising the successes of the Leeds Year of Volunteering 2010, providing the background and proposed work programme for 2011 and to consider the City Council’s own approach to volunteering. The report was also sought approval to a Leeds European Year of Volunteering 2011 and to the development of a comprehensive volunteering framework to govern the use of volunteers and volunteering by staff

RESOLVED –

  a)  That the proposal to make 2011 the Leeds European Year of     Volunteering be endorsed.

b)    That the funding implications in paragraph 6.3 of the submitted report for the likely cost of the 2011 Leeds European Year of Volunteering be noted and that these costs be built into the 2011/12 budget preparations so a decision could be made on funding alongside other competing demands.

c)    That additional activities and events that will contribute to making the year a success for the city be sponsored and encouraged.

d)    That officers work up a draft Volunteering Framework for Leeds   City Council for wider consultation by January 2011, with the   objective of bringing back a finalised report to Executive Board for adoption in spring 2011.