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Macc: Trustee Connect Space

Are you an experienced charity trustee or a fairly new one?

We would love you to join us for the next session of our Trustee Connect Space.

The theme this time is Trustee Recruitment and we are thrilled to have a trustee from Manchester Mind join us to chat about her experience of trustee recruitment.

It’s a chance to connect with your peers, ask questions, share knowledge and best practice

This session is available only to trustees of charities who have a majority of their beneficiaries located in the city of Manchester.

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Shared Topic Areas

Capacity Building

Volunteering

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Community Matters: Legal Issues Around Managing Volunteers in England and Wales

This session introduces the key legal issues around managing volunteers.

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Shared Topic Areas

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Equity, diversity and inclusion for chairs and boards

Written by those with lived experience, and packed with top tips from chairs and trustees, 'It starts from the top' is a must-read for anyone hoping to make non-profit boards and organisations fairer and more resilient.

With contributions from:

Topics

Capacity Building

Equalities

Volunteering

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Inclusive Volunteering workshops

Unlock opportunities for disabled people in sport, physical activity and movement. GM Moving, in collaboration with Sector3, Seashell, and Breakthrough UK, is offering a series of workshops designed to reduce barriers and create inclusive volunteering experiences for VCFSE organisations across Greater Manchester.

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Physical Disability

Volunteering

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We are recruiting a Volunteering Development Worker

We are seeking a proactive and passionate individual who is dedicated to working collaboratively with partners across the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE), public and private sectors.

Salary: £28,382.64 per annum
Hours: 35 hours per week
Location: Based in the Macc office in Manchester City Centre but with some remote working
Deadline: 31 January 2025, 12pm (noon)
Dates for interviews: 13 February 2025 all day

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Volunteering

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Free workshops available from the Royal Literary Fund

The Royal Literary Fund has worked with Communities First for several years, offering free workshops in writing skills, led by our professional writers. We also work with Recovery Colleges, the NHS, unions and the voluntary sector.

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Student Volunteering Research Launch

In June 2024 Anushka Swannell, a Volunteer Development Worker at Macc, did a piece of research on ‘The Current Climate of Student Volunteering in Greater Manchester.’ We invite you to the launch event for this research, where she will outline her findings and key policy recommendations. There will also be opportunities for you to discuss your experience as a student volunteer, or involving student volunteers, and how we can improve this in future.

Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS

Shared Topic Areas

VCM

Volunteering

Young People

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NCVO: Creating inclusive and accessible remote working opportunities

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Shared Topic Areas

VCM

Volunteering

Other

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Trustees Connect: Membership Call to Action

Written by Macc’s Capacity Building Team, this article was initially composed for Macc members. Membership is free and open to all with a vested interest in the city of Manchester.

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Capacity Building

Leadership

Learning, Skills and Employment

VCM

Volunteering

Other

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Season 9 of Meet the Mancunian Podcast is here

The first episode launches with an incredible story of resilience and impact. This episode features Maria Romanenko, nominated as Volunteer of the Year in the Spirit of Manchester Awards.

Fleeing Ukraine amidst war, Maria now devotes her time to supporting fellow Ukrainian refugees in Manchester. She offers free walking tours and thousands of volunteer hours, despite her own challenges. Maria’s dedication even earned her the Prime Minister’s Points of Light Award.