In Season 9 of the Meet the Mancunian Podcast, host Deepa Thomas-Sutcliffe collaborates with the Spirit of Manchester Awards to feature interviews with award winners and nominees from the city's voluntary and community sector.
Get an overview of the key tasks and considerations when creating a volunteer strategy. Learn how to develop a strategy that compliments your business plan and create a framework for building success.
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Course Overview
92% of UK trustees are white, older, and above average income and education. Just 8% of charity trustees are from Black, Asian, and other minority backgrounds, and fewer than 3% are women of colour. 70% of charities find it difficult to recruit trustees, and there are an estimated 100,000 unfilled charity trustee positions in the UK. This half day training course is designed to demystify trustee recruitment for small organisations, and ensure that equity, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of your trustee recruitment.
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) are delivering in partnership with Charity and Voluntary organisations a free workshop on The Legal Duty to Refer for recruiters, employers and those who are dealing with safeguarding, welfare, disciplinary, HR staff etc.
The workshop will cover:
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) are delivering in partnership with Charity and Voluntary organisations a free workshop on the DBS Update Service for recruiters and employers, giving opportunity to learn more about this service and the benefits to organisations in its use.
The workshop will explore:
Is there someone in your organisation who’s a real champion? easyfundraising is on the search for the people who go above and beyond or make everyone’s day a little brighter.
Three incredible people deserving of some much-needed recognition and appreciation will be chosen to be easyfundraising’s Community Champions and will win a £250 donation for their organisation, as well as £250 to treat themselves to something special.
Can you support the Department for Culture, Media and Sport with a brilliant Honours nomination?
Following the fantastic individuals across the nation who received an Honour in June, the Department is in search of nominations for future Honours rounds, in particular HM The King's Birthday Honours List 2025.
There are thousands of individuals across the whole of the UK who are making a tangible difference in their communities. Your help is needed to find them and reward them for their hard work.
Rob Jackson, an international leading voice in volunteer management and published author on the subject, will be delivering a 1 day training course for Volunteer Managers and Coordinators.
Morning session: Volunteering is changing...and so must you
Volunteering is changing and old models of how to recruit and retain people are increasingly outdated. The session will explore some of these changes, and what you can do to adapt your volunteering offer.