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Agenda 13.00 Opening address - Rita Clifton CBE, TCV Chair 13.05 Film “What does Volunteering mean to me?”13.10 Welcome to Camden – Cllr Siddiq

13.15 Keynote address - Phil Rothwell 13.30 Launch of the Volunteering Impacts Report & Q&A

14.30 A Case Study: The Penge Green Gym14.40 Volunteering Impacts Award presentations14.45 Break and refreshments15.00 Workshop - Measuring volunteering impact

15.30 Future Developments: Impact Mapping16.00 Summary - Rita Clifton16.05 Close

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WellbeingDominic Higgins, National Development Manager, TCV

Reclaiming green places since 1959

© The Conservation Volunteers 2014

27th March 2014 Slide <1>

Volunteering Impacts Conference

Why measure wellbeing?


© The Conservation Volunteers 201427th March 2014 Slide <2>


– in 2010: “(we) will start measuring our progress by how our lives are improving….by our quality of life.”

– The Office for National Statistics measures ‘national wellbeing’:

– Health: 19.7% of us reported a long term illness and a disability (- 0.3%)

– Wellbeing: 80.7% of us think the things we do are worthwhile (+0.7%)

– Natural Environment: Household waste that is recycled - 43.2% (+0.2%)

What we know




Does involvement in volunteering help volunteers to improve their health and wellbeing?

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Physical Health (SF‐12)

Mental Health (SF‐12)

Mental Wellbeing (WEMWBS)

Percentage Vos improving their scores




What we know

Does involvement in volunteering help volunteers to improve their health and wellbeing?

– a markedly higher improvement in ‘scores’ when participants take on key roles

– health improvements were greatest amongst those with the poorest health

– our mental health benefits: social contact, Ecotherapy, social capital

– physical health & fitness: calorie burn, regular & sustained attendance

– resilience: skills, knowledge, confidence positively impact self-esteem

Pro-environmental behaviours Roberta Antonaci, Green Impacts Project Officer, TCV





Summary




• Overview of the Green Impacts Project

• Methodology

• Key Findings

• Further Research Opportunities

Green Impacts Project




TCV’s Strategic Plan identifies the need to improve the measurement of “qualitative impactacross the broad range of its work so its achievements can be properly articulated”

Gaps in the data collection process (Mike King 2010);• the development of pro-environmental behaviours• the contribution local volunteer groups make to the wider community

Green Impacts Project launched in 2011 funded by City Bridge Trust and John Laing Charitable Trust

True value of the volunteering process was being underreported

Green Impacts Project’s Key Objectives




1) Inspire environmentally friendly lifestyles

TCV recruited 23 Greener Living Champions, delivered 43 Greener Living Workshops and Events and worked with 32 community groups to complete 87 Individual Action Plans

2) Develop a tool to test if volunteering leads to the development of pro-environmental behaviours

3) Develop a methodology to test the belief that local volunteer groups can enhance community resilience

Methodology




To meet the objectives we collected both qualitative and quantitative data

Pro-environmental Behaviours Resilience

120 interviews with TCV volunteers 10 Resilience Interviews

43 Workshops & Events 18 Resilience Workshops

1,059 BehaviourChange surveys

The Behaviour Change Survey




The Green Impacts Project adopted an approach first developed by WWF and CAG Consulting called the Change! Tool

The Behaviour Change Survey measures the volunteering impacts on the adoption of pro-environmental behaviour in:

8 main areasShopping

Travel Waste

Food Growing

Energy Your area

Community Local decisions





Research focused on mixed group of volunteers based in London (8 TCV Action Teams and 8 TCV Green Gyms)

Baseline survey: completed at first point of contact with TCV

Follow-up survey: repeat of the baseline survey after 4 and 10 tasks

Baseline Survey Second survey (4 tasks) Third survey (10 tasks)

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WasteI do not think there is a connection between the waste I produce and the environment.

I do think there is a connection between the waste I produce and the environment but I don’t recycle.

I consider the environment when throwing things away

I recycle/compost some of my waste.

I recycle/compost most of my waste.

I recycle/compost all of the recyclable and compostable material in my waste.

Low

High

1 positive step of change

1 negative step of change

Motivations for volunteering




Self-reported pro-environmental behaviour change




Shopping Travel Waste Food Energy Your area Community Local Decisions

External factors play a key role




Gender Women were quicker to change their behaviour and self-reported a bigger change than men

Age Positive change more evident in the 25-54 age range

Ethnicity BME volunteers more likely to make a positive step change in community activities/local decisions

Non BME volunteers more likely to make a positive step change in travel, shopping and wildlife in their area

Background Those from most deprived areas show the most change

How TCV organises volunteering appears tohave a major influence




Green Gym

• 3 hours • primarily funded for and focused on health and wellbeing outcomes• up to 50% of volunteers are referred by health practitioners • a wide range of initial motivations

Action Team

• 6 hours• primarily funded for and focused on land based outcomes • most volunteers are self-referred• initially motivated to improve the environment, work outdoors and try something new

How TCV organises volunteering appears tohave a major influence




Shopping Travel Waste Food Energy Your area Community Local Decisions

Key Findings




• Volunteers’ motivation shifts significantly over time

• Volunteering has a positive impact on pro-environmental behaviours

• Change in pro-environmental behaviours increases over time

• Volunteering has a greater impact on the most deprived

• Women change their behaviour 3x more and faster than men

• The volunteering programme impacts the level of behaviour change

Further Research Opportunities




• A pro‐environmental behaviour study across multiple regions and encompassing a wider range of activity, perhaps using citizen science.

• The relationship between health, wellbeing and pro‐environmental behaviours.

• How interventions in the volunteering process, such as training and mentoring, impact the development of health, wellbeing and pro‐environmental behaviours.

Community Resilience

Mike KingResources for Change

Question being addressed

“Which attributes of resilience enable communities to react to

extreme events?”

What do we mean by resilience?“A resilient community is one that takes intentional action to enhance the personal and collective capacity of its citizens and institutions to respond to the course of social, economic and environmental change”

…. and what is it like?“Resilience is like a muscle … that must be developed in advance and consistently exercised to be both strong enough to withstand severe challenge and flexible enough to handle a wide range of unpredictable forces”

Finding answersa. Interviewed 10 groups who had been involved in

resilience situationsb. Identified the attributes that made that involvement

successful.c. Developed this analysis into a Resilience Framework

and Assessment Toold. A Resilience Assessment workshop developed and

piloted with 18 groupse. Results used to strengthen groups and potentially the

network

Resilience AttributesActivity

Self ‐ organising

Transferable Knowledge & Skills

Connections

Applying the framework – individual groups

Applying the framework – the local group network

Conclusions

TCV affiliated groups that have responded to resilience situations demonstrate key attributes that enables them to do so

The Resilience framework that emerges from this analysis potentially provides TCV with;

a way of assessing the resilience of the groups themselves

pointers to how groups could develop to play a wider role in the community.

Future Impact?

Penge Green Gym at Winsford Gardens

Brenda Little and David Fergusson





Where and When?


© The Penge Green Gym 201427th March 2014 Slide <2>

Where?

History

• Early 1900’s private gardens

• Public Park since 1970’s

• Neglected

• May 2011, TCV/LBB

• April 2013, Penge Green Gym Community Group



Preparation for Launch Day



Our Launch Day 2013



Improving Environment for Local Community



Improving Environment for Wildlife



Improving Health of Volunteers

Awards


© The Penge Green Gym 2014


Awards

• Bromley Environmental Awards 2012• Penge In Bloom 2013


© The Penge Green Gym 2014


Any Questions?

For more information see our website www.pengegreengym.org.ukFollow us on Twitter @GreenGymPenge #greengymand Facebook or sign up for our email Newsletter.

Health, Wellbeing and Future Research

Valentine Seymour, CEGE, UCL [email protected]


© The Conservation Volunteers 2014Volunteering Impacts Conference

Overview

• My brief story with TCV and Academic Research

• Wellbeing vs Pro‐environmental Behaviours: Preliminary Research

‐ Do volunteers need to reach a particular level of well‐being before pro‐environmental behaviours become evident?

‐ Are there particular components of well‐being that correlate more closely with pro‐environmental behaviours?

• Future research directions for wellbeing…

[TCV – Croydon]

My Volunteer & Academic story with TCV …

• Extend TCV’s Management Information system analysis with the use of geographical analysis, qualitative research and citizen science

• Focusing on the health and wellbeing of volunteers

• What do we are discovering so far? …

Do volunteers need to reach a particular level of wellbeing before pro‐environmental behaviours become evident?

[TCV – Croydon]

Wellbeing & Pro‐Environmental Behaviours

• Paradox: Pro‐environmental behaviour can thwart or foster wellbeing

• What shapes pro‐environmental behaviours & wellbeing is so complex that it is hard to visualise through a single framework or diagram (Hedonic vs. Eudaimonic)

• Correlational Research vs. Causality Research

Hedonic Treadmill

Illustration by Daniel Trump

Wellbeing & Community Involvement

• Complexity of factors: Have we considered all the facts?

• Is there a formula for happy communities?

Neighbourliness + Empowerment = Wellbeing

• Community Resilience

[Kristen Magis’ 2010 Community Resilience Self Assessment Model]

Wellbeing, Connection to Nature & Engagement

Nature

Individual Wellbeing

Social Interactions

Aesthetic values

LifestyleSocioeconomic Values

Future research directions for wellbeing…

[TCV ‐ Stave Hill]

[email protected]

Support for the research kindly provided by:

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation UK, The Conservation Volunteers and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

Special thank you to the volunteers at The Conservation Volunteers

Impact Mapping - How can we map the positive impact of volunteering?

Prof Muki Hacklay, CEGE, UCL

[email protected] @mhaklay



The challenges

• Easy impacts are easy to quantify – but not telling us much

• Sometime impacts are hidden in data and need to be teased out

• More complex impacts require a different approach

• Technological fixes can work, but need to be well integrated into social and organisational practices

Let’s use some data… • Start with postcodes of TCV volunteers from the year 2009.

• Other datasets that were used in the analysis :– The Index of Multiple Deprivation 2007– The Environment Agency ‘Environmental Quality Index’ (2007)

– National Statistics mid year estimates of population 2008

– Ordnance Survey CodePoint Open dataset

• Number of volunteers by Local authority

• The ranges of values represent the distribution of the data:– 0‐5: 88 authorities– 5‐10: 62 – 10‐20: 67 – 20‐40: 68– 40‐80: 42– >80:27

• A different, but more useful visualisation is by calculating the average (26) and standard deviation (41) to notice where are the places that are well above average (above 1 Std. Dev.)

• This visualisation is normalising the number of volunteers by the population in each local authorities.

• Notice that now there are some local authorities that are not appearing the previous map.

Mapping TCV MIS

• Invaluable, allowing for quantitative analysis at the organisation scale

• Standardise questions, details and information –so qualitative input can provide further details

Participatory Mapping• Participation‐based methods for eliciting and recording geographical information

• A map making‐processthat aims to capture and make visible associations between place and individualsor groups through cartographic language

Volunteer rainfall observer Rick Grocke checks the rain gauge at Tanami Downs cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia

Source: WMO–No. 919

Source: Audubon Cal.Citizen science is an approach that engages non-professional scientists to participate in data collection, analysis and dissemination of a scientific project.

Ecological monitoring: iSpot

Mapping for Change

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Participatory mapping/citizen science• Allow activities that are linked to the practices of volunteers

• Engagement in not only data collection, but also interpretation and enrichment of information through qualitative and media

• Wider participation in interpretation

CreditsSupport for the research kindly provided by: UCL Graduate School Research Fund; ESRC ‘Conserving Biodiversity That Matters: The Value of Brownfield Sites’ project; EPSRC Challenging Engineering Award ‘Extreme Citizen Science’; EU FP7 EveryAware project; EU FP7 Citizen Cyberlab project; UrbanBuzz: Building Sustainable Communities (HEFCE); London Sustainability Exchange (LSx); London 21 Sustainability Network; Zoological Society of London; The Conservation Volunteers; Google Research Awards; Amazon Web Services Education GrantsOur special thanks to the participants and the communities that work with us

And to our partners: Royal Geographical Society, ESRI, Helveta and U-Blox

• Follow us:– http://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites– http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk– Blog: http://uclexcites.wordpress.com – Twitter: @UCL_ExCiteS

Summary

Rita Clifton CBE

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