1. www.saltireawards.org.uk GUIDE ON HOW TO REGISTER AND GET THE AWARDS

2. Young Person Menu To get started, click on the Young Person tab. The Young Person menu has been colour coded Blue. It has all the information on the awards and will contain other sections which are relevant to Young People. To sign up, please click on Approach (for the 10 and 25 hour certificates) or Ascent (for the 50, 100, 200, 500 certificates) Then click on Getting Started and register

3. Sign Up (part 1) Next type in Aberdeen and then choose Aberdeen Volunteer Centre (Gallowgate)

4. Sign Up (Part 2) After choosing your centre for volunteering you will required to fill in a few details about yourself. You will be required to have an active email address in order to complete the registration. You will also need to provide a password which you must keep safe and share with no one.

5. Sign Up (Part 3) Once you have completed the registration you will be sent a confirmation link to the email address you provided. You will need to click on this link to activate your account.

6. Sign Up Complete Clicking the link will activate your account and you will now be able to access My Saltire

7. Saltire Awards My Saltire

8. My Saltire Sign In You will be required to sign in to access My Saltire with the email address and password you provided during registration.

9. My Saltire My Saltire has several sections to it. They are: Summary Submit Hours Volunteering Details Achievements Saltire Journal Your Details More functionality will be provided in the future. Now Click on – Volunteering Details

10. My Saltire Adding Volunteering To get started we need to add your volunteering details. So you can submit hours and achieve a Saltire Award

11. My Saltire Add volunteering You must provide organisation details of where you are volunteering and the supervisors name. They will contact the organisation ensure the information is correct and you are volunteering with them If you are volunteering internally with AUSA, put down Michelle Higgins as the Contact Supervisor – m.higgins@abdn.ac.uk

12. Submitting Hours Once the organisations you added have been approved. You will be able to submit hours. Please note if you have chosen the Approach and submit hours and claim the 10 hour and 25 hour certificates, you will need to upgrade to the Ascent for the certificates thereafter (you can do this on the – Your Details tab). You can backdate hours but you can’t go back further than April 2010 as another award was in place prior to this date which is no longer available.

13. Submitting Hours (Continued) The hours you submit will be shown in a progress bar. Once you reach a milestone of 10, 25, 50, 100, 200 and 500 you will be able to request an award. Just press the claim button. Please note if you are volunteering with AUSA, you will need to complete the attached timesheet and give this to Michelle so when asked she can verify your hours. An electronic copy of the timesheet can be emailed to you if you prefer and when you have completed it, you can email it back to Michelle) The reason for doing this is that you can input online blocks of hours (up to 99) and it only shows the date you input. For the purposes of the certificates, Michelle needs the timesheet to be completed on a daily basis.

14. Saltire Journal The Saltire Journal will be your own personal space to record Training, New Skills learned and much more.

15. Saltire Journal Adding an Entry Depending on which section of the Saltire Journal you will be able to write an entry. For Example in the Training section you will be able to record type of training, What you did etc.