Volunteering offers you opportunities to develop both your personal and professional skills and knowledge. You can record some volunteering as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) depending on what you’ve identified in your Personal Development Plan (PDP).

When you log your hours, you need to demonstrate what you’ve learnt and how you’ve interacted with the learning, so it will be personal to you and your PDP.

There are so many opportunities available at the RTPI it can be hard to know what to do next. We have information online about what you can do depending on your career stage, for example, if you’re chartered or looking to progress.

You could consider progressing to the Vice Chair and Chair roles within the group, committee, or network that you’re in. It is a great way to build on the experience you have in a familiar area. Speak to your key contact to find out more.

The get invovled pages outline the full breadth of opportunities available at the RTPI.

Many of the roles at the RTPI require a commitment of a term, which can be one, two or three years and this will be outlined in the role description. However, we understand that circumstances change, and you may no longer be able to carry out your volunteering role, so please let your key contact know as soon as possible.

As part of our commitment to thanking volunteers, we also want to recognise when roles come to a natural end. Many roles are based on ‘terms’ and hopefully you’ll go on to get involved in other roles. We still want to make sure you are thanked at this point and it’s part of our guidance on thanking volunteers.