Please provide details of two people who have known you for at least two years that we can ask for references regarding your work/study/experience and your suitability to volunteer with us. Wherever possible these should be current/past employers, places you have volunteered or a teacher/tutor. If you are unable to provide referees from these areas, please note this and we will contact you to identify appropriate references.

Declaration Of Criminal Records And Disqualifications

Given the nature of our work, Ingleshaw Housing is exempt from Section (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The information we request will be used only to assess the applicant’s suitability for volunteering, insofar as it is relevant.Details about convictions are only requested from people invited for interview, and criminal records will be taken into account for volunteer recruitment purposes only when the conviction is relevant.

If your answer to the above question is ‘Yes’ and you are invited for interview, you will be required to fill in a ‘Disclosure of Information Relating to Criminal Offences’ form prior to your interview.

As Ingleshaw Housing meets the requirements in respect of exempted questions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, all applicants who are offered a volunteering role and will be involved in direct work with service users will be subject to a DBS check from the Disclosure and Barring Service before the appointment is confirmed.

At Ingleshaw Housing we value your support and promise to respect your privacy. The Data Protection Act 2018 sets out certain requirements for the protection of your personal information against unauthorised use or disclosure. The Act gives you certain rights. The information which you provide on this form and any other information obtained or provided during the course of your application will be used solely for the purpose of assessing your application, except when we are required or permitted to by law. We require your consent to process the information you have provided, so please make sure that you sign the attached consent form and send it to us along with your application.

If your application is unsuccessful, or you choose not to accept any offer of volunteering we make, the information will not be held for longer than two years. After this period, it will be destroyed; however, relevant but non-traceable information will be retained in the longer term for equal opportunities monitoring purposes.

If your application is successful, the information will form part of your volunteering file once you are in post, and we will require your consent to process your personal data while you are volunteering with us.