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Managing Volunteers Session 3 – Supporting and Celebrating Volunteers

They’re your organisations greatest asset, but how do you support and celebrate your volunteers?

Volunteers give their time, energy and enthusiasm, and are a vital part of your organisation or group’s work. What do you do to thank them and recognise the essential part they have to play in your organisation?

Using good practice examples, we will explore how the meaningful support and celebration of volunteers leads to a better volunteer experience and increased retention.

What will you learn?

This training will help you understand:

  • The importance of supporting your volunteers throughout their time with you
  • About the different types of support you can offer, including ongoing training
  • How to increase volunteer retention
  • How to celebrate and share the impact your volunteers have
  • The best way to say thank you.

Following the session, you will be able to:

  • Demonstrate and share volunteer impact with volunteers, potential volunteers and external audiences
  • Support your volunteers as individuals on their volunteer journey
  • Hold meaningful catch up sessions
  • Conduct exit interviews.

What’s included?

We’ll provide a step by step plan and the resources to help you write your own:

  • Support and supervision procedure
  • Volunteer communications e.g. newsletter
  • Success stories e.g. blogs, case studies, podcasts
  • Training plans
  • Exit interview form.

We’ll also include templates, best practise examples and links to further information.

Take advantage of our volunteer management training package

You can either dip your toe into this one training session, or dive right in to our volunteer management training bundle.

We’ve developed a suite of volunteer management training that covers everything you need to know about becoming a great volunteer manager, from policies and planning, to safeguarding, celebrating, recruitment and retention.

Other training sessions available to you include:

Who should attend?

This training is suitable for organisations and groups thinking of involving volunteers for the first time or seeking to refresh their knowledge of good practice in volunteer management.

Please note this training is aimed at voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations and groups based in North Yorkshire or delivering services within North Yorkshire.

About the trainer

The Volunteer Management training will be delivered by Lizzie Clapham. Lizzie has extensive experience in supporting groups with best practice in volunteer management, and runs our Volunteer Coordinators Network.

Costs and concessions

£18 (including VAT)

Why not take advantage of our special rate by booking on all four Volunteer Management Training sessions (including this one) for £55 (including VAT)?

Concessionary places

Thanks to funding from North Yorkshire County Council, we have free ‘first come, first served’ places if you meet either of the criteria below. You can self-select a free place during booking.

Criteria:

  • You are from a North Yorkshire VCSE organisation with an income of up to £5k

OR

  • You are from a North Yorkshire VCSE organisation with an income of up to £25k which is experiencing financial hardship and would struggle to pay.

These spaces are limited so if a free place is not shown when you go to book, you can ask to be added to the waiting list for a free place on a future training session.

No shows and concessions

Please note that if you don’t attend training that you have booked on without giving seven days notice, you will be required to make the full payment. This also applies to free places. This is to allow as many participants as possible access to our training. See our Terms and Conditions for more information.

Refunds

Attendees can receive refunds for cancellations up to seven days before the event date.

Contact details

If you have any questions about the training, please contact Lizzie volunteersupport@communityfirstyorkshire.org.uk

If you have any questions about booking or invoicing please contact info@communityfirstyorkshire.org.uk or telephone 01904 704177.

Booking details

Book your place here.