Good Practice in Volunteer Management (Workshop 2) What to do when volunteer management gets challenging
October 1, 2025
Date: Wednesday 1st October 2025
Time: 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Shaddongate Resource Centre
Address: Shaddongate, Carlisle, CA2 5TY
Cumbria CVS over two face to face workshops to discover more about the key principles of best practice in volunteer management.
Our next workshops are face to face and will bring together Volunteer Managers or anyone with a responsibility for managing volunteers and will look at:
Creating a Positive Volunteer Journey (Workshop 1) and Workshop 2 will focus on: What to do when volunteer management gets challenging
This booking and event details are for:
Workshop 2 : What to do when volunteer management gets challenging
The session will cover:
The basic principles of good volunteer management
Identifying potential difficult situations with volunteers that requires action
Understanding the wider impact of not dealing with difficult situations with volunteers
Understanding the policies and procedures to put in place for volunteers
The importance of having a problem solving process for volunteers
How to have difficult conversations with volunteers
Get top tips, tools, templates and share ideas and experiences to help you shape effective volunteer management processes in your organisation.
We know that volunteers are pivotal in helping many local organisations deliver wide ranging support and services to local communities and individuals. The workshop sessions are designed to help you reflect and focusing on what to do when volunteer management gets challenging.
This workshop will last for 2.5 hours which are free for VCSE and non-profits.
You don’t have to attend all sessions, but we do encourage it if you can as each session build on previous knowledge gained.
Interested? To book onto Workshop 2 please click here (Available for a maximum of 2 places per organisation).
Workshop 1: Creating a Positive Volunteer Journey
Join us for this workshop which will focus on how to map and identify a positive Volunteering Journey on the 17th of September at Drigg Hall, Holmrook. To book session 1, please click here:
This event is part of our This Is Us project, made possible by Westmorland and Furness Council through funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and the Bedrock Basics programme funded through Sellafield and supported by Cumbria Community Foundation . Priority for bookings will be given to organisations in Westmorland and Furness and West Cumbria and who are Cumbria CVS Members.
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