Supporting volunteers
See how Bexley VSC offer their support to local sports clubs and community groups.
Our video showcases their work, the ways they've helped their local community and their top tips for engaging with your local Council for Voluntary Service (CVS). Some of the organisations they work with also feature and share how it feels to be supported by their CVS and the benefits they've experienced.
The video begins with a white screen with a Buddle branded colourful border. The Buddle logo appears centrally, with the ‘Supported by Sport England’ and ‘The National Lottery’ logos sitting below. The name of the video, ‘Working with Councils for Voluntary Services – Bexley VSC’ appears in blue text at the bottom of the screen. An upbeat backing track begins and plays throughout the video.
Vertical coloured stripes of purple, blue, teal, orange, red and blue (the Buddle colours) swipe across the screen from left to right, to reveal an artificial football pitch. A group of seven boys wearing different football kits run across the pitch. The shot changes to show six of them lined up across the pitch. The text ‘Danson Youth Trust SEND football club – delivered in partnership with Aspire Academy Bexley’ appears on the screen before disappearing.
Subtitles appear at the bottom of the screen and continue throughout, accompanying the voiceover. A female voice (later identified as Stephanie Mallender) can be heard: ‘Community voluntary services, so CVSs provide advice, support and often training opportunities for organisations and groups within local communities.’
As Stephanie Mallender speaks, the scene transitions to show a close-up of her, wearing a white blouse and sitting inside Danson Youth Centre facing the camera. In the background various pictures, notice boards and a large connect-four style game can be seen. A lower third banner appears at the bottom left of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text ‘Stephanie Mallender, Development Manager, Sport England’.
Stephanie continues: ‘CVSs might also be known as VSCs, so Voluntary Service Councils or VCSs, Voluntary Council Services and they all operate within the VCSE sector, which is the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise sector.’
As Stephanie speaks the shot returns to the artificial grass pitch. It shows a close-up shot of a male coach, wearing a black t-shirt, slowing walking across the pitch holding a blue football. The shot quickly returns to show Stephanie. It then returns to the artificial grass pitch, this time showing a close-up of a female coach, wearing a long-sleeved sports top looking across the pitch. The shot changes once more to show a group of boys playing football and the female coach. One of the boys, wearing a red football shirt, kicks the ball towards a goal and scores. The shot changes to show a boy wearing a purple football shirt waving at the camera, before returning to show Stephanie being interviewed.
The shot transitions to show a wooden sign which includes the letters D and T, a tree and the words Danson Youth Trust. The screen changes to show Josh Hayre, sitting inside the youth centre facing the camera. He’s wearing a dark green long-sleeve polo shirt. A lower third banner appears at the bottom left of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text ‘Josh Hayre, Sports Inclusion Officer, Bexley Voluntary Service Council’. Josh says: ‘At Bexley VSC we work with organisations that provide a variety of sports, physical activities for children and young people, adults with disabilities and also those from the Deaf community within Bexley, as well.’
As Josh speaks, the shot returns to the artificial grass pitch. It shows a slow motion shot of the female coach talking to a group of four boys. The shot changes to show four adults, three males and one female, playing pickleball in an indoor sports hall, two of the players can be seen signing the score to each other. The text ‘Bexley Deaf Club’ appears on the screen before disappearing. Two of the male players are in blue shorts and t-shirts, one male is wearing a grey t-shirt and black shorts, and the female player is wearing a black t-shirt with bright green cycling shorts.
The shot changes to shows the pickleball players in a doubles match before returning to the artificial grass pitch where a boy in a white football kit can be seen kicking a football towards the goal. Four other boys can also be seen on the pitch. During this, a new speaker (Jamie Kesten) says: ‘BVSC can help groups to understand what the best way to set their group up is.’
Jamie appears on screen sitting inside the youth centre facing the camera and wearing a red jumper. A lower third banner appears at the bottom left of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text ‘Jamie Kesten, Funding and Development Manager, Bexley Voluntary Service Council’. Jamie continues: ‘Anything from an unincorporated organisation, all the way up to a fully registered charity and what the implications of setting up in different ways might be, and which is the best fit for them.’
As Jamie speaks, the shot returns to the artificial grass pitch, to show the boy in the purple t-shirt throwing the football onto the pitch. The female coach can be seen behind, coaching him. The shot changes to show the boy in the white football kit dribbling and passing the football, and then a boy wearing black kit taking a goal kick.
The shot changes to show a close-up of a child bouncing on the trampoline, the child is wearing a blue top and blue tracksuit bottoms. The text ‘Danson Gymnastics and Trampoline Club’ appears on the screen before disappearing. The shot changes to a wider shot of two children, one boy and one girl, bouncing on two trampolines. The girl is wearing a purple, pink and white leotard and the boy is wearing a navy tracksuit. Jamie continues: ‘We help groups to find out what funding is available, so we compile all of the local opportunities. Some of them are national, regional - share those out via email.’
The frame changes to show a female adult (later revealed as Kuan-Yu Chen), wearing a white t-shirt and black tracksuit bottoms, dancing next to a young boy who is wearing a long-sleeved top and black tracksuit bottoms, inside a hall within the youth centre. The text ‘Dandelion Collective’ is seen on screen before disappearing.
The scene changes to show Philippa Norris sitting facing the camera inside the youth centre, wearing a beige jacket and top. A lower third banner appears at the bottom left of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text ‘Philippa Norris, Centre Manager, Danson Youth Trust’. Philippa says to camera: ‘Danson Youth Centre is quite unique in that it’s so well established in the community, it really is an intergenerational mixture.’
While Philippa speaks, the shot changes to show the young boy wearing the navy tracksuit climbing onto a trampoline. The shot changes again to show two girls jumping on a trampoline, one wearing a white top and black leggings and the other wearing a white and purple vest and leggings. Philippa returns on the screen and continues: ‘Working with BVSC, I think the benefit, again, is just pulling in multi-layer agencies, whether it be the local authority or your local voluntary sector council, services like ours that are kind of down that list and then you’ve got the actual community themselves. All of it together is really, really powerful.’
The shot returns to show the boys and female coach playing football on the artificial grass pitch. The boy in the white top throws in the football. The shot then reverts to show two adults, one male and one female, playing pickleball.
Philippa is then shown on camera again as she continues: ‘And I think the biggest benefit is that BVSC have the resources to bring those services and those people to the table together, to create something.’
The shot changes to show the girl wearing the white and purple vest and leggings and a boy in a green t-shirt and green tracksuit bottoms jumping on the trampolines. Philippa continues: ‘They have access to those conversations and those connections that otherwise, organisations like ourselves may not have access to.’
The shot changes to show Kuan-Yu facing the young boy she was previously seen dancing with. They both raise their hands. The shot then changes again to show a slow motion shot of Kuan-Yu dancing and smiling. Kuan-Yu can be heard saying: ‘I found BVSC, Josh from BVSC’s name, so I contacted Josh to begin with.’
As she speaks, Kuan-Yu Chen appears facing the camera sitting inside the youth centre. A lower third banner appears at the bottom left of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text ‘Kuan-Yu Chen, Director, Dandelion Collective’. She continues: ‘Then after that it just started rolling. So BVSC supported me with funding. One, who helped me to start with, children with additional needs, they helped me to set up the class, they helped me to buy the equipment and advertise it.’
As Kuan-Yu speaks, the shot reverts to show a close up shot of the boy she was previously seen with. Kuan-Yu is dancing while holding the boy’s hand. The shot shows a slow motion shot of Kuan-Yu before returning to show her talking to the camera.
Kuan-Yu continues: ‘And they also helped me with expanding because I’m thinking of recruiting volunteers.’. The shot reverts back to show Kuan-Yu dancing with the boy who is mirroring her arm movements.
The shot changes to slow-motion footage of three people tapping their feet on the floor. Kuan-Yu is then seen holding hands and dancing with the boy again. The boy can be seen smiling before Kuan-Yu applauds. Kuan-Yu continues: ‘They’re helping you with the sections that you didn’t even know you needed.’
The frame cuts to a new interviewee (later identified as Louise Partridge) wearing a dark blue floral dress, sitting inside the youth centre. A lower third banner appears at the bottom left of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text ‘Louise Partridge, Volunteer Development Lead, Bexley Voluntary Service Council’. Louise speaks to the camera: ‘Any voluntary sector organisation or community group can access our services, mainly around volunteer recruitment.’
The shot changes to show the exterior of Danson Youth Centre, which includes red signage reading ‘The Danson Centre’ as Louise continues: ‘We do have a platform where you can advertise for volunteers to support your organisation. We support with best practise around volunteer management.’. As she speaks, the shot changes to show the artificial football pitch, where the female coach can be seen running around celebrating, before high fiving a boy wearing a blue and white football kit. The shot reverts back to Louise talking to the camera.
Louise continues: ‘We offer training to, not only volunteers, to organisations. We hold networks and peer support groups so that anybody who manages or coordinates volunteers can come along and talk about the challenges they’re facing.’
As Louise speaks, the shot changes to the artificial grass pitch. It shows the boy wearing the blue and white football kit throwing a football to a teammate. A boy in a white football kit intercepts and passes the ball.
The scene returns to the pickleball players in the indoor sports hall. It shows a woman hitting the ball. The shot changes to show the male in the blue polo shirt jump to hit the ball and smile.
A new interviewee (later identified as Kelly Galloway) appears in front of the camera, sitting inside the youth centre, wearing a white blouse. A lower third banner appears at the bottom left of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text ‘Kelly Galloway, Head of Health and Wellbeing, Bexley Voluntary Service Council.’
Kelly says: ‘Another one of the areas within BVSC is called One Bexley, and that is a consortium of eight charities that came together and we work in conjunction with adult social care, carrying out some of their statutory assessments.’
As Kelly speaks, the shot changes to show a close up of the blue football being kicked by a boy wearing black football boots and white socks. The view changes to behind a football goal. We see a ball, kicked by the same player, go into the goal. A goalkeeper wearing a black kit turns to watch the ball. The shot then changes to a girl wearing a pink, purple and white leotard jumping around some spots on the gymnastics floor area.
Kelly continues: ‘The assessments being done by charities enables us to create a person-centred package of care for them, that isn’t just reliant on statutory services, it is also connecting them to groups and clubs in their local area.’
As Kelly speaks, the shot cuts to a girl wearing a white t-shirt and black tracksuit bottoms does a forward roll onto a blue sponge block. A girl, wearing a white and purple vest and black leggings is then shown jumping on the trampoline before coming to a controlled stop. The shot changes to a side view of two girls jumping on the trampolines before changing to show two males on one side of a pickleball net hitting the ball.
A new speaker (later identified as Tania Bushell) can be heard as the shot changes to show her wearing a black t-shirt, being interviewed alongside a male (later identified as David Foot) in a blue polo shirt. Both are sitting in front of the camera inside the youth centre.
A lower third banner appears at the bottom left of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text ‘Tania Bushell, Chief Executive, Bexley Deaf Centre’. Tania signs as she speaks: ‘And then through BVSC, we applied for some funding, and we got that, and we brought some equipment. We gave it to them, we booked all the courts, we found a Deaf pickleball coach, and then from then they’ve just carried on and now they just do it themselves.’
As Tania speaks, the shot reverts to show her, David and two other males playing pickleball before returning to show her and David Foot in front of the camera. A lower third banner appears at the bottom right of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text ‘David Foot, Chair, Bexley Deaf Club’. T
ania can be heard interpreting for David as he signs: ‘The Deaf community, we need access to sport, inclusive sport, because sport, they don’t really get involved in the Deaf world because communication is really difficult. We asked BVSC if they can help us to start something through funding and they helped us to start pickleball and it’s really, really popular.’.
As David signs, the shot changes to show him and Tania playing pickleball as doubles partners, Tania hits the ball, before the shot returns to show David signing.
The shot changes to slow motion footage of the male pickleball player in the grey shirt jumping and Tania as his doubles partner. They turn to watch the ball. Tania can be heard saying: ‘I’m involved with the Sports Disability Network, so I sit on the board.’ The shot changes to show David and the other male in a blue polo shirt as double partners. Tania is then shown speaking to camera as she signs, saying
‘[The] Deaf community will come to me and say that they want to try something new, then I can go and apply for some funding to set up something new, and that’s what happened with pickleball.’
As Tania speaks, the shot changes to show a close up of the male player in the grey shirt serving the ball. It then changes to show Tania returning the shot on the other side of the court, which goes out.
The screen reverts to show Tania speaking to camera as she signs, saying: ‘They don’t just help with sport, they help us as a charity with lots of different things. So, we’re really grateful that we have a VCS like BVSC to help the charity community in this area.’. As Tania speaks, the shot changes to show a male pickleball player in a blue polo shirt returning the ball. It then changes to show Tania, David and the two male pickleball players lined up in front of the camera smiling with their paddles raised before returning to show Tania and David being interviewed.
The scene changes show the artificial grass pitch, the boys playing football shake hands. The words ‘Top Tips’ swipe in and out of the left-hand side of the frame.
Josh can be heard saying: ‘Don’t be afraid to ask questions, give as much detail as possible and as much information on the needs that you have.’. As Josh speaks, the frame changes to show shows three children lining up next to the trampoline and then showing Kuan-Yu dancing in slow motion, before showing Josh speaking to camera saying: “Sometimes, there might be support that you can obtain from your local VSC.”
As the frame changes to a close-up shot of a child wearing a green top and trousers doing a forward roll on a blue mat, Jamie can be heard saying: ‘Sign up to their mailing lists.’
The shot changes to show Jamie speaking to camera, saying: ‘That can give you a really good sense of what’s out there.’
Louise is then shown speaking to camera, saying: ‘Get in early. Ask for help early.’
The frame changes to show the boy wearing a long-sleeved top dancing as Kelly can be heard saying, before appearing on camera: ‘Just do it. There’s so much we can support with and that is what we are here for.’
The scene reverts to show the child wearing a blue tracksuit jumping and doing a forward roll, as Philippa is heard saying before appearing on camera: ‘Be open and honest. There’s somebody else around the table that’s probably having that same problem. But it goes back to the same point of, we are much stronger together.’
The shot shows a close up shot of Kuan-Yu dancing with the same young boy as before, she then appears on camera saying: ‘BVSC is like this little piece, but it connects other, wider organisations together and makes a whole community bigger and bigger.’
Stephanie can be heard speaking as the shot reverts to show a wider angle of Kuan-Yu dancing with the young boy. The shot changes to show Stephanie speaking to camera as she says: ‘The best way to locate your CVS organisation is essentially just to jump on any search engine and put in some really key words, that might be CVS or VCSE and then your local area, and that should come up with whoever the CVS provider is in that area.’
Whilst Stephanie is speaking, the shot changes back to the artificial grass pitch where the all the boys playing football can be seen celebrating. The boys run towards the camera from the goal, before huddling up and raising their hands.
Vertical coloured stripes of purple, blue, teal, orange, red and blue (the Buddle colours) swipe across the screen from left to right, to reveal a white screen with a Buddle brand coloured border. The Buddle logo appears centrally on the white screen. ‘Supported by Sport England’ and the Sport England logo sits beneath this.
The Danson Youth Trust, The National Lottery, Bexley Voluntary Service Council and Aspire Academy Bexley logos appear beneath in the middle of the screen. At the bottom of the screen the text ‘www.buddle.co’ and ‘www.sportengland.org‘ appear.
The music stops. The video ends.