After a useful - (and highly amusing - thanks Tom for the Heavy Metal requests...) first session with attendees from around the UK we are ready for SESSION TWO! Workshops and networking LIVE on the internet. Why?! We'll explore some of the ways we can create classrooms online, some of the barriers and opportunities, and … Continue reading FREE Live Online Workshops!
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A series of opportunities to learn, share skills and network with other coordinators in North East London this Autumn. Sessions are facilitated by Rebecca Tully, in partnership with Significant Seams and Voluntary Action Waltham Forest. Booking details below and at the Voluntary Action Website. Involving the Busy People – planning for short term and … Continue reading Networking and Training: Waltham Forest Autumn 2015
Very engaging and informative… with a positive, inclusive ethos” Natalie, Forest Farm Peace Garden Volunteer Management has found its way back into the news recently for reasons we’d all rather avoid – no volunteer co-ordinator wants to end up in the High Court proving their volunteer is not an employee, or settling an employment tribunal … Continue reading Covering our bases…Best Practice Basics
Mandatory work placements weaken our community sector. Volunteer managers should keep sight of our definition of volunteering, and be honest about what it’s not. In the training I do, discussion can arise when we’re looking at volunteer motivations. “Why DO people get involved in the first place…?” is a question I ask a lot. We … Continue reading Work. Fair. Volunteer.
This is so beautiful I want to marry it. Here are the bits you don't see - the reason it's an art to get a project up and running, to get people involved, to make sure we all support each other. The reason it needs recognition and a bit of cash every now and then. … Continue reading Why All the Fuss? Managing Volunteers
Volunteers... CRB... DBS... Regulated Activity... Barred Lists... Confusion. A half day interactive worksh0p addressing the recent changes in criminal record checks for volunteers, and all the great ways if keeping your organisation and volunteers safe. I can deliver this for your organisation... please get in touch. Picking apart the JARGON Activities: checking real-life volunteer roles … Continue reading Training: Volunteer Disclosure Checks
Facilitating Groups Effectively - a two-day course through LVSC and Happy. Highly interactive with lots of chance to practice techniques, and time to reflect on your own skills and development. Previous comments on the course: "Clever approach"... "Lots of short sessions that covered plenty of content" 16th/17th October, course outline here, please call to book … Continue reading Latest Learning Opportunities
I'm working on a project for Greater London Volunteering: creating a set of tools (and guide of how to use them) that help us measure how well volunteer involvement in our groups is doing. The aim: it will enable us all to be more clear about the good so we can shout about it, and … Continue reading Evaluation tools: Keeping track of involvement
Volunteer led? Unable to find funding for what you do? Larger organisation losing funding? Not interested in playing the fundraising game? How to you get a project done through community organising, volunteer involvement and perhaps a smattering of enterprise? Where: Chelmsford Date: 25 April 2012 What is it about? How do you make change happen … Continue reading Doing it Without Funding
Last year I delivered a workshop "Networking and Influencing to make your ideas happen" at Futureversity. This year I hope to run the workshop again, and also have an idea for a new session: Careers Advice: The Truth! around real-life work and career case studies focusing on the real story about how people get work, … Continue reading Young trainers – plan and train with me?
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