Valuing Our Volunteers

Thursday 22^nd February 2006

Hartpury College, Hartpury, Gloucester, GL19 3BE

A one-day conference offering practical advice, workshops and networking opportunities for all with responsibility for managing volunteers.

This event is FREE of charge. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Provisional Programme

10.00 – 10.30am Registration and Refreshments

10.30 Opening information session, with a welcome from Jill Loader,

Consultant National Volunteer Co-ordinator, British Equestrian Federation

Presentation from Riding for the Disabled Association

11.30 Volunteers and the Law (Mark Restall, Volunteering England)

12.30 Lunch and Networking Opportunity

1.30 First Breakout Sessions

2.30 Coffee Break

2.50 Second Breakout Sessions

3.50 Closing Remarks

4.00 Close

Workshop presenters include:

Mark Restall, Head of Information, Volunteering England

Mark has been in an information role around Volunteering for the last 8 years.  He has been a full time volunteer and worked in a Volunteer Centre as well as at National level.  He is the author of Volunteers and the Law and co-author of The Good Practice Guide, a volunteer management handbook.

Anne Homyer, Step into Sport Development Manager, Sport England

Anne is the Step into Sport Development Manager at Sport England and works in partnership with Youth Sport Trust and Sport Leaders UK to co-ordinate the programme.  Step into Sport focuses on young people aged 14 to 19 years and has been set up to provide a pathway of leadership and volunteering.  Anne formerly worked at BTCV, an environmental conservation volunteering charity, before joining Sport England to deliver a lottery funding programme for Playing Fields and Community Green Spaces.

Breakout sessions - Please choose which two you would like to attend.

Session One

1a) Step into Sport - Young Leaders and Volunteers

Anne Homyer, Sport England

v What is Step into Sport?

v Creating a High Quality Placement for Young Volunteers

v Role of the Club or other Organisation

v Getting Active

v Different Ways of Volunteering

OR

2b) Valuing our Volunteers (presenter tbc)

A practical look at methods for recruiting, managing, recognising and rewarding your volunteers.

Session Two

2a) A Guide to Grant Funding (presenter tbc)

Funding Opportunities for not-for-profit groups in local communities.

OR

2b) 50 ways to lose a volunteer – the bad practice guide

Mark Restall, Head of Information, Volunteering England

A fun but practical point to some of the key points that volunteer-involving organisations trip up on. Based on the premise that life would be easier without untidy volunteers cluttering up the place, the workshop subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) gives a volunteer’s perspective on how their gift of time can be snubbed, even by organisations with the best of intentions.