Modernising Volunteering
Red Foundation is a delivery partner of the Modernising Volunteering Improving Support programme funded by Capacity Builders. This
initiative is a partnership led by Volunteering England, with CSV,
Nationwide Foundation and v.
ONLY A FEW PLACES LEFT ON OUR FINAL 4 SESSIONS!
I recently attended the two sessions run by Red Foundation in Birmingham on Social Networking and Employee Volunteering. The Social Networking session dealt with a complex subject in a readily understandable way, with minimum amounts of 'tech speak'. The Employee Volunteering session too was a twist on previous training on this topic and Red's experience was invaluable, giving a different slant on how to approach companies and sell the 'what's in it for me' message. Both sessions were excellent and seemed very 'fresh' compared to some other training I have attended. They were also informative, thought-provoking and interactive i.e. all the hallmarks of quality training.
Eileen Fielding, Dudley CVS
'Fresh Training' Free training opportunities from Modernising Volunteering
Don't know your LinkedIn from your Twitter? Wondering how Facebook can support your work? Or perhaps you're feeling overwhelmed by the growth in enquieries from members and companies looking for for employee volunteering opportunities? Then help is at hand.
Through 'Fresh Training' we will be running a half day seminar to provide an introduction to working with social networks, aimed at volunteer support service workers who are thinking of or just starting to use these networks for volunteer recruitment and communication with their peers or members.
Running alongside side this will a half day workshop for volunteer centre managers and other infrastructure bodies on how best to advise and support their member organisations to respond to the growth in enquiries from companies looking for employee volunteering opportunities.
Both sessions will be held on the same day, am and pm, so you will have the opportunity to attend both although places on the employee volunteering session will be limited due to the workshop format. Dates and locations are listed below. Bookings are being managed by our corporate community investment team, so please click here, which will take you to the corporate community investment contact form, to reserve your place. There is no need to resend the form to any other team in Red Foundation. Please ensure that you specify which date and session that you want to attend - eg Social Networking and/or Employee Volunteering.
'Fresh Training' - Locations and dates
- London - January 13th Full (ask to be added to the waiting list)
- Birmingham - January 20th
- Liverpool - January 27th
- Bristol - February 1st Full (ask to be added to the waiting list)
Modernising Volunteering's role is to promote volunteering through helping support providers guide third sector organisations towards engaging and deploying a greater diversity of volunteers and in developing new sustainable ways of working. We encourage recognition of the value of volunteering and will help modernisation by building support resources and developing new ways or working with and involving volunteers.
Our aims
We will equip support providers with the skills, knowledge and tools needed
to help increase the quality, quantity and accessibility of volunteering
opportunities. With our partners, we will focus on four main areas:
overcoming barriers to volunteering; accessing non-financial support;
faith-based volunteering; and new forms of volunteer involvement.
What problems do we want to solve?
Existing research has identified some barriers to volunteering and how it
needs to evolve for the 21st century. This research now needs to be
converted into practical resources so that support providers can help
frontline organisations attain an increase in the quality, quantity and
accessibility of volunteering opportunities.
Red Foundation will be leading on a strand of work to explore how online
social networks can support volunteering and those that work with
volunteers, and will be developing the 'Volunteer Champions' concept
recommended in the Commission on the Future of Volunteering's Manifesto for
Change, published in 2008.
Keep in touch with latest developments
You can keep in touch with all developments, including accessing online
surveys and research and briefing papers via the Capacity Builders website,
www.improvingsupport.org.uk/volunteering
About Improving Support
Improving Support brings together practical resources and information for all those providing support to third sector organisations.Funded by Capacitybuilders, the Improving Support website provides a gateway to the widest range of resources, information and support, creating an easily accessible community for the exchange of ideas, advice and learning.
An Improving Support magazine and regular e bulletins also help you to stay informed and share learning on a range of issues relevant to your work as a support provider.
Find out more at: www.improvingsupport.org.uk/about