Kendal Volunteering Fair

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Join us during Student Volunteering Week to celebrate and promote all things volunteering, and recruit new volunteers for your organisation!

Wednesday 12th February 2025, 4-5.30pm (set up from 3pm) Kendal College, Westmorland Campus, Market Place, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 4TN

Your organisation is invited to book a stall at the Kendal Volunteer Fair, organised jointly by Cumbria CVS and Kendal College as part of Student Volunteering Week 2025.

This event will be open to both students at Kendal College and anyone from the general public, who are warmly invited to join us in the brand new Westmorland Campus facilities. We aim to attract people to come along and to meet local groups, charities or organisations to find out about their work, local volunteering opportunities, and how individuals interested in volunteering can register and become a volunteer.

By attending the event, individuals will find out more about which organisations are looking to recruit new volunteers, the wide range of local volunteering opportunities available, when and where volunteers are needed and how to become a volunteer.

Set up will begin from 3.00pm and each organisation will be offered a table and chairs to promote their organisation. We kindly ask that each organisation that attends brings displays, posters, leaflets, information about their organisation, and application forms (where relevant) to hand out to potential volunteers. We encourage organisations to make their stalls interactive to encourage people to engage in conversations about volunteering.

We ask organisations to attend for the full event and to talk to individuals about:

*What your organisation does

*Volunteering opportunities available

*Time commitment and when and where volunteers are needed

*How volunteers can register to become a volunteer

*Why volunteering is a fantastic opportunity!

Places will be confirmed after the closing date of 10th January 2025. Please book early so this will allow time for publicity and posters to be produced for the event.  Priority bookings will go to Cumbria CVS members and organisations on the Volunteering in Cumbria Portal, who operate in Westmorland and Furness.

We ask all organisations to register on the new Volunteering in Cumbria portal as we will be encouraging volunteers who attend the event to register on the portal to volunteer and to apply to organisations (https://volunteering.cumbriacvs.org.uk)

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 is organised in partnership with Kendal College.

To book your place please click on the link below:

https://crm.cumbriacvs.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=43&reset=1

Data Protection

For the purposes of General Data Protection Regulations (2018), the data controller in respect of your personal data is Cumbria CVS. By registering your interest in the event, you are agreeing for your data to be stored and used by CVS. This will not be accessible to the wider organisation and will be used for the purposes of this event, to meet your needs. Your data will not be shared with any third party, without your prior permission. All data will be held and disposed of in line with our Data Protection and Document Retention Policy.

Please be aware that photos and video clips may be captured during this event by Cumbria CVS and used to help us promote our services and future events. If you do not wish to be photographed or want to withdraw photo consent at any time, please contact us