Volunteering

GM Moving: Maximising Your Volunteers' Experience

Learn to build a positive volunteer culture by recruiting, retaining & rewarding. Leave with steps to grow and support your volunteer team.

This Buddle workshop delivered by GM Moving explores how to cultivate a positive volunteering culture within your organisation, focusing on the '3 Rs': recruiting, retaining, and rewarding volunteers.

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Cranfield Trust: The Future of Volunteering - Closing the digital experience gap

Join strategists from Great State as they reveal findings from research into the UK voluntary sector exploring why volunteering organisations face an existential challenge, and what they need to do now to survive. 

Formal volunteering has plummeted from 27% to 17% in a decade, yet charities are more reliant on volunteers than ever. But this isn't a motivation problem – 84% of Gen Z want to support causes. It's an experience problem. 

In this 60-minute session (including Q&A), you'll discover: 

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Trustee Roles & Responsibilities

This session will help you gain a better understanding of the role and responsibilities of being a trustee. It is an ideal introduction for new trustees, or as a refresher for existing board members.  

Ever wondered what it is that trustees should do? 

This training explains good governance within charities, managing risks, charity reporting requirements and how to ensure your charity is meeting its public benefit requirements. 

The session covers: 

St. Thomas Centre, Ardwick Green North, Manchester, M12 6FZ

Working and volunteering in prisons training

Are you new to working or volunteering in prisons? Do you have volunteers or staff members who want to increase their understanding of the prison system?

Working or volunteering in a prison can be quite daunting due to the many complexities associated with its unique environment and establishing the role of the voluntary sector within that can be challenging.

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The Big Help Out is back

The Big Lunch and The Big Help Out are teaming up on 5th-8th June for a weekend of friendship, food, fun and action – and everyone’s invited. It’s one big do – a chance to meet, eat and lend a hand locally in the UK’s biggest celebration of community. Big or small, what you do is up to you – a BBQ with the neighbours, a local litter pick or helping a good cause for the day – we can all do something. It’s easy, it’s fun and it’s for everyone.

Find out more and get involved here