Organisations must:

• Be a registered charity, social enterprise, voluntary group, statutory body or a not-for profit organisation.
• Provide volunteers with an induction and role specific training where necessary.
• Have a Health & Safety Policy
• Have an Equality & Diversity Policy
• Have a Public Liability Insurance Policy
• Provide a Logo
• Have a registered contact with an email address and a phone number.
• Be responsible for sorting out the DBS check of a student, where a role requires one.
• Have a DBS Code of Practice relevant to their activities and will conduct the necessary checks of a student if they are going to be volunteering with children and/or adults at risk.

Opportunities must:

• Be based in the UK. The Volunteer Centre cannot currently promote any international volunteering roles.
• Be unpaid and should not replace a previously paid role.
• Must benefit both the organisation and the student.
• Have clear and truthful descriptions of a volunteer’s role and responsibilities.
• Have realistic role and responsibility expectations. Should a role have multiple responsibilities, consider breaking the role down into different roles with reduced responsibility.
• If the opportunity has multiple responsibilities or is titled as an Internship, please refer to the Internship policy.
• Not be similar to a number of already unfilled positions on our system.
• Be flexible with the time commitments of the role. The commitment to the opportunity should be reasonable for a student in full time education (a guiding principle for this is of 15 hours per week).
• Be aware of and respect a student volunteer's priorities in terms of timetables, academic year, examinations and possible VISA restrictions.
• Ensure that volunteers have access to a named line manager/supervisor. This person should be responsible for their direct management.
• Reimburse students if there are reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, where possible.