Volunteers and the Law Workshop

Date: Thursday 26 April 2018
Time: 10:00 - 16:00

Join us at our day-long workshop on this popular topic that relates to involving volunteers in your organisation.

Aims:

• understand the legal position of volunteers
• consider and develop an approach to how you involve volunteers without creating contracts
• feel empowered, and increase awareness on ways to reduce risk and treat volunteers fairly.

After the workshop, you will be more familiar with the law and how it relates to volunteering in terms of:

• volunteer and employment rights
• health & safety
• vetting & criminal records checks
• insurances
• contracts or agreements
• data protection
• involving paid staff as volunteers
• young volunteers
• volunteering & benefits

Book a place on this training HERE.

Before booking online, please read the following information carefully:

Registration: If you have not yet registered with Volunteer Centre Manchester, please take a few minutes to complete this now

Organisations can sign up HERE
Volunteers can sign up HERE

If you do not register, you will not be eligible to attend the training.

Fees: 

This training is FREE for volunteers that are registered with Volunteer Centre Manchester; who are volunteering for an organisation or are actively looking for and applying to volunteering opportunities (in the City of Manchester).

A cost of £30 will be charged to employees of Macc member organisations and £60 to employees of any other third sector non-member and statutory, public or private sector organisation who would like to participate in the training.

There are 15 places available - please book early.

To access your local Volunteer Centre's training programme, please refer to the NCVO Volunteer Centre Finder HERE.

If you are representing an organisation, only ONE booking (per organisation) is permitted - If they become available, additional or spare places will be offered to other people in your organisation.

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