Welcome to
The Power of
Connection

This toolkit offers valuable resources for organising volunteer programmes that facilitate meaningful social interactions, aiding in the reduction of prejudice and fostering mutual understanding among diverse groups.

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So Why a Toolkit?

The Power of Connection has been designed to help people organising and supporting volunteers and volunteer programmes to provide volunteering opportunities which offer prolonged, meaningful social mixing – essential to reducing prejudice and increasing understanding between people from different backgrounds.

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Getting Started

It’s time to explore The Power of Connection. View this introduction for an overview of volunteering.

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Unit 1 – Understanding Place

Explore the connections you have locally through your volunteering and consider ways to expand the diversity of your volunteers.

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Unit 2 – Bonding, Bridging, and Linking

Find out more about the benefits of building social capital connected to volunteering.

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Unit 3: Strengthening Social Cohesion

See which principles may support your volunteering and build social cohesion at the same time.

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Unit 4: Choosing Social Cohesion Outcomes

Select the outcomes that fit with the type of volunteering you are engaged in. Remember that every group/organisation is unique.

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Unit 5: Making an Action Plan

This is your opportunity to put your learning into action and apply what you have learnt from each unit.

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About the Social
Cohesion Network

Belong – The Cohesion and Integration Network is a national charity and membership organisation based in Manchester. We support you to help people from different backgrounds meet, mix and get along.

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