Introduction to Canva for non-profits – Tuesday 14th October, online. Struggling to create eye-catching content for your organisation’s social media, newsletters, or presentations? Join our free online session for a beginner-friendly walkthrough of Canva, the powerful design platform that helps you create stunning visuals with ease.
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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.
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.
Could you help us make a real difference across Cumbria? Volunteer as a trustee and join our board! This is a diverse and exciting opportunity to shape the organisation and support the third sector of Cumbria. While there is a commitment to volunteer your time, there is so much to gain from being a trustee.
We’re working with easyfundraising to help the organisations in our network receive extra funding. Through easyfundraising everyday items bought from over 8,000 online retailers raises money. Over a year, just one person could raise £362 for their chosen good cause! Find out how to get your organisation involved.
