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Insights and Inspiration - sold out
Find out about how others are bringing the Vision for Volunteering to life and get inspired to action.
This event has sold out. A recording will be made available for those unable to book tickets.
Insights and Inspiration - sold out
Find out about how others are bringing the Vision for Volunteering to life and get inspired to action.
This event has sold out. A recording will be made available for those unable to book tickets.
Insights and Inspiration - sold out
Find out about how others are bringing the Vision for Volunteering to life and get inspired to action.
This event has sold out. A recording will be made available for those unable to book tickets.
Experimentation in Trusteeship - A Small Charities' Week webinar
As part of the Small Charities’ Week programme of events, Getting on Board, Vision for Volunteering and Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and Northumberland bring you this lively, thought-provoking and practical session. Join us and feel inspired to experiment with your governance and achieve the best version of your organisation.
Ripple Effect Mapping - Online
Ripple effect mapping is a technique that is designed to capture the ‘ripples’ of impact that are hard to measure by traditional methods or that don’t happen immediately. It’s participatory and interactive, adaptable to unique contexts and, best of all, it’s really easy to do!
Champions' Cafe
The first online Champions Cafe is being held on Thursday 13th June – we’d love you to join us! Fresh from Volunteers Week, this is an opportunity to come together as Vision for Volunteering Champions to connect, share ideas and challenges and explore possibilities.
Community Reporting Training - Online
We are looking for people to become trained as Community Reporters to help support our learning about the Vision for Volunteering. Community Reporting is a storytelling methodology that uses digital tools to support people to tell their own stories in their own ways.
Join us for a half-day training session that will introduce you to the methodology of Community Reporting, get you trained up and ready to go out gathering and working with stories of lived experience. By attending this training session, you will get fully trained in the Community Reporting methodology. In return, we ask that you gather at least three stories about the Vision for Volunteering.
How to say thank you: the importance of volunteer appreciation
This event is delivered in partnership with NCVO. Discover meaningful, budget-friendly ways to show volunteers you value and appreciate them. Find out how saying thank you can improve your volunteer retention and satisfaction.
Introduction to the Vision for Volunteering - Online session
This introductory session will explain the Vision for Volunteering, summarise its inception, and explore what it aims to achieve by 2032. You'll hear about the Vision and its five themes: Awareness & Appreciation, Power, Equity & Inclusion, Collaboration and Experimentation.
Introduction to the Vision for Volunteering - Online session
This introductory session will explain the Vision for Volunteering, summarise its inception, and explore what it aims to achieve by 2032. You'll hear about the Vision and its five themes: Awareness & Appreciation, Power, Equity & Inclusion, Collaboration and Experimentation.
Online Conference: Equity and Inclusion
Throughout January-March 2024, The Vision for Volunteering will be hosting online conference on each of the Vision themes individually. Come along to this free event to learn and discuss: examples and case studies of best practice, how the themes affect you in your sector or community, what the barriers are to improving volunteering and how we can overcome those barriers.
Ripple Effect Mapping - Cambridge
If you are an organisation or group that has already started making changes towards bringing the Vision for Volunteering to life locally, we’d like to invite you to join our Ripple Effect Mapping sessions to help us see what impact the Vision for Volunteering is having.
Online Conference: Experimentation
Throughout January-March 2024, The Vision for Volunteering will be hosting online conference on each of the Vision themes individually. Come along to this free event to learn and discuss: examples and case studies of best practice, how the themes affect you in your sector or community, what the barriers are to improving volunteering and how we can overcome those barriers.
Introduction to the Vision for Volunteering - Online session
This introductory session will explain the Vision for Volunteering, summarise its inception, and explore what it aims to achieve by 2032. You'll hear about the Vision and its five themes: Awareness & Appreciation, Power, Equity & Inclusion, Collaboration and Experimentation.
Online Conference: Collaboration
Throughout January-March 2024, The Vision for Volunteering will be hosting online conference on each of the Vision themes individually. Come along to this free event to learn and discuss: examples and case studies of best practice, how the themes affect you in your sector or community, what the barriers are to improving volunteering and how we can overcome those barriers.
Online Conference: Power
Throughout January-March 2024, The Vision for Volunteering will be hosting online conference on each of the Vision themes individually. Come along to this free event to learn and discuss: examples and case studies of best practice, how the themes affect you in your sector or community, what the barriers are to improving volunteering and how we can overcome those barriers.
Community Reporting Training - Online
We are looking for people to become trained as Community Reporters to help support our learning about the Vision for Volunteering. Community Reporting is a storytelling methodology that uses digital tools to support people to tell their own stories in their own ways.
Join us for a one-day training session that will introduce you to the methodology of Community Reporting, get you trained up and ready to go out gathering and working with stories of lived experience. By attending one of these training days, you will get fully trained in the Community Reporting methodology. In return, we ask that you gather at least three stories for the Vision.
Community Reporting Training - Online
We are looking for people to become trained as Community Reporters to help support our learning about the Vision for Volunteering. Community Reporting is a storytelling methodology that uses digital tools to support people to tell their own stories in their own ways.
Join us for a one-day training session that will introduce you to the methodology of Community Reporting, get you trained up and ready to go out gathering and working with stories of lived experience. By attending one of these training days, you will get fully trained in the Community Reporting methodology. In return, we ask that you gather at least three stories for the Vision.
Online Conference: Awareness and Appreciation
Throughout January and February 2024, The Vision for Volunteering will be hosting online conference on each of the Vision themes individually. Come along to this free event to learn and discuss: examples and case studies of best practice, how the themes affect you in your sector or community, what the barriers are to improving volunteering and how we can overcome those barriers.
Community Reporting Training - Online
We are looking for people to become trained as Community Reporters to help support our learning about the Vision for Volunteering. Community Reporting is a storytelling methodology that uses digital tools to support people to tell their own stories in their own ways.
Join us for a one-day training session that will introduce you to the methodology of Community Reporting, get you trained up and ready to go out gathering and working with stories of lived experience. By attending one of these training days, you will get fully trained in the Community Reporting methodology. In return, we ask that you gather at least three stories for the Vision.
Ripple Effect Mapping - Stoke-on-Trent
If you are an organisation or group that has already started making changes towards bringing the Vision for Volunteering to life locally, we’d like to invite you to join our Ripple Effect Mapping sessions to help us see what impact the Vision for Volunteering is having.
Introduction to the Vision for Volunteering - Online session
This introductory session will explain the Vision for Volunteering, summarise its inception, and explore what it aims to achieve by 2032. You'll hear about the Vision and its five themes: Awareness & Appreciation, Power, Equity & Inclusion, Collaboration and Experimentation.
Community Reporting: Stories from the Front Line
Join the Vision for Volunteering team and People's Voice Media to hear some stories we've gathered about people's experiences of volunteering. We'll listen to the stories together then create action plans for how we can turn this learning into change - as individuals, in organisations, and in wider society.
Ripple Effect Mapping - Leicestershire
If you are an organisation or group that has already started making changes towards bringing the Vision for Volunteering to life locally, we’d like to invite you to join our Ripple Effect Mapping sessions to help us see what impact the Vision for Volunteering is having.
Ripple Effect Mapping - Wirral
If you are an organisation or group that has already started making changes towards bringing the Vision for Volunteering to life locally, we’d like to invite you to join our Ripple Effect Mapping sessions to help us see what impact the Vision for Volunteering is having.
Small Charity Workshop
We couldn't do what we do as small charities without amazing volunteers donating their time. But finding them, and keeping them, can be a constant challenge. In-keeping with the Vision for Volunteering's theme: Awareness & Appreciation, Vic Hancock Fell from Fair Collective explores the barriers and opportunities around volunteer recruitment and retention.
NCVO: Volunteers Leading Volunteers
To be sustainable we need to be thinking about our people. Join us in this session where we explore the unique role of trustees as volunteers and how engaging in good environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices helps our volunteering go further
AVM Masterclass: How to Develop Your Volunteer Strategy
This Masterclass is brought to you in partnership with the Association for Volunteer Managers. If you want to take your volunteer strategy from a dusty document in a drawer to a launchpad for building a movement around your cause, this workshop is for you.
Welcome to Muslim Charities Forum
The Vision for Volunteering’s project partners collaborate on helping to reshape the future of volunteering. Join us to welcome our newest partner, Muslim Charities Forum, and get to know more about their work and their ambitions for the Vision.
Introduction to the Vision for Volunteering - Online session
This introductory session will explain the Vision for Volunteering, summarise its inception, and explore what it aims to achieve by 2032. You'll hear about the Vision and its five themes: Awareness & Appreciation, Power, Equity & Inclusion, Collaboration and Experimentation.