Supercharge Your Trustee Recruitment, session 3: How to Recruit Trustees – marketing and advertising techniques to find new trustees – Tuesday 14th October, online. Join us to unlock the energy you need to find the next Trustees for your board. Get top tips, tools, and templates and learn best practices for your trustee recruitment.
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Good Practice in Volunteer Management – Workshop 1: Creating a Positive Volunteer Journey. Wednesday 8th October, Barrow. Workshop will cover: Creating a Positive Volunteer Journey, Understanding the principles of good volunteer journey management, Ability to identify and map a positive journey for a volunteer + more!
Good Practice in Volunteer Management Workshop 2 – What to do when volunteer management gets challenging! 1st October, Carlisle. The session will cover: The basic principles of good volunteer management, Identifying potential difficult situations that requires action, Understanding the wider impact of not dealing with difficult situations+ more!
eBay and easyfundraising have teamed up for the £5,000 Big Give. TEN £500 funding pots are available and one of them could be yours! Many organisations in our network are already benefitting from easyfundraising – raising free funds every time their volunteers, supporters, trustees and staff shop online.
Developing a Volunteering Strategy for Cumbria: Volunteers are pivotal to the work of many of our local organisations and volunteering is a powerful force for change, but we know that sometimes it isn’t equally accessible for everyone. Over the next few months will be running a series of engagement workshops.
Would being part of a communications network be useful for you? We’re considering starting up a network for people who look after or manage day-to-day comms activity (on their own or as part of a team), and for those for who comms is part of their role.
It’s been a busy and exciting few months for the Volunteering for Health project! Our Terms of Reference for the project have now been agreed, and we have determined the key priorities which will be focusing on over the course of the programme which will run until March 2027.
Interested in volunteering in West Cumbria? Come along to the next West Cumbria Volunteering Fair on Thursday 18th September in Whitehaven. Meet local organisations and find out about local volunteering opportunities!
Our Operations Manager, Bridget, writes about how we’re working in partnership to recruit Community Co-Researchers. These roles will be at the heart of a truly collaborative approach to research. CCRs will be local people, rooted in their communities, helping to shape and deliver research that reflects real experiences and priorities.
County Volunteer Managers Network Meeting – Thursday 25th September, Penrith Rugby Club. Come join us for the next face to face County Volunteering Network Meeting. The agenda of the meeting is: Inclusive Volunteering: Focus on Refugees and Asylum Seekers.
