A Community First Yorkshire event

Managing Volunteers

What makes an effective volunteer manager/coordinator? What are the key responsibilities and how do they differ across the sector?

How can you ensure effective recruitment and induction of volunteers? What does volunteering look like in different contexts?

The session is broken up into 4 areas:

  • Session 1: Good Practice in Involving Volunteers
  • Session 2: Reaching and Recruiting Volunteers
  • Session 3: Supporting and Developing Volunteers
  • Session 4: Celebrating the impact of Volunteers

This NEWLY REVISED volunteer management training – now delivered in-person again for the first time since lockdown – provides the knowledge you need to fulfil your role with confidence and to have impact.

By the end of the session you will have an understanding of:

  • Volunteering, as defined in the Vision for Volunteering, and as experienced in different contexts across North Yorkshire.
  • Volunteer role descriptions.
  • How to recruit and induct volunteers, utilising a variety of different scenarios taken from the North Yorkshire context.
  • How best to support a team of volunteers and the psychological contract between volunteers and volunteer management/coordination.
  • How to write effective risk assessments, job descriptions, adverts, and marketing plans.

 

Who should attend?

  • Volunteer managers/coordinators, including those new to the role and those who wish to refresh their understanding.
  • Trustees and others with a significant interest and involvement in the management of volunteers for their organisation.

Please note this training is aimed at organisations and groups based in North Yorkshire or delivering services within North Yorkshire.

About the trainers

Lizzie Clapham and Vicki Sharp are development officers with Community First Yorkshire. They have a great deal of experience in volunteer management.

Lizzie has a background in event and arts project management. She has years of experience in recruiting, on boarding and managing volunteers in a wide variety of contexts.

Vicki too has practical experience in volunteer recruitment, training and support as well as a long career working with children and young people. This was within formal education, youth services and careers advice and support for SEND young people. Vicki was most recently a volunteer and operations manager for a local museum trust.

Cost

£35 (including VAT)

Concessionary places

Thanks to funding from North Yorkshire County Council, we have free ‘first come, first served’ places if you meet either of the criteria below. You can self-select a free place during booking.

Criteria:

  • You are from a North Yorkshire VCSE organisation with an income of up to £5k

OR

  • You are from a North Yorkshire VCSE organisation with an income of up to £25k which is experiencing financial hardship and would struggle to pay .

These spaces are limited so if a free place is not shown when you go to book, you can ask to be added to the waiting list for a free place on a future training session.

No shows and concessions

Please note that if you don’t attend training that you have booked on without giving seven days notice, you will be required to make the full payment. This also applies to free places. This is to allow as many participants as possible access to our training. See our Terms and Conditions for more information.

Book your place here

Refunds

Attendees can receive refunds for cancellations up to 7 days before the event date.

Contact details

Booking queries contact
Email: info@communityfirstyorkshire.org.uk
Tel: 01904 704177

Programme queries
Email: communitysupport@communityfirstyorkshire.org.uk
Tel: 01904 704177

Booking details

Book your place here.

Booking deadline date:  Tuesday 25 April 2023 at 12:30

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