Our Speakers
Rob Jackson
Rob Jackson is the Director of Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd, a consultancy and training company that helps engage and inspire people to bring about change.
He has almost 30 years of experience working in the voluntary and community sector, holding various strategic development and senior management roles that have focused on leading and engaging volunteers.
Rob’s session will focus on the changing nature of work and what this may mean for volunteering.
How we work, where we work, and when we work are changing. Driven by changes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, technology, and a wider re-evaluation of what matters to us. The workplace and how we earn a living are undergoing some big shifts.
What might this mean for Volunteer Engagement Professionals? Will Artificial Intelligence, Universal Basic Income and the four-day week be a good thing for volunteering? This is a chance to learn and explore together.
Find out more about Rob and follow him on socials.
Gethyn Williams
Gethyn’s work is driven by the belief that there is still enormous untapped value for volunteering’s role in society, for the non-profits that enable it, and in the personal and social capital it generates.
This belief is driven by his unique insights from key roles on significant national initiatives, combined with extensive programme experience.
A nationally recognised Volunteering Strategist, Gethyn has helped to solve challenges and map out solutions for The Football Foundation, Humber’s Integrated Care Partnership, Lewisham Borough of Culture, National Academy for Social Prescribing, V&A East and others. He is an Associate Consultant with NCVO and the VCSE Data and Insights Observatory at Nottingham Trent University.
In his wider consultancy, Gethyn helps nonprofits develop their business through better impact capture, partnership development and storytelling, helping clients to get more from their most intangible assets – their brand, history, reputation and volunteers – leveraging these for greater value and impact.
Based in Cambridgeshire, Gethyn runs a successful volunteering programme for a community arts charity, is a Lead Organiser at a local music festival, and a Trustee at The Evelyn Glennie Foundation.
Gethyn will be joining us to discuss the Digital Volunteer Toolkit that we are developing in collaboration the AVM.
Find out more about Gethyn here.
Rachel Gegeshidze
Tempo Time Credits, CEO
Tempo Time Credits is a charity serving communities across the UK by engaging, encouraging and enabling citizens to get involved. They provide the glue that binds local voluntary partnerships and community-based solutions.
Rachel became CEO of Tempo in 2023 after first joining in 2012. Her role is to drive Tempo’s strategy and results, extending their impact across the UK. She’ll be joining us to discuss what Tempo can offer to organisations as well as the upcoming Tempo & TeamKinetic integrations.
The Tempo Time Credit model recognises and values volunteers for the hours they give to the community. Volunteers can then exchange these for experiences, products or services – like cinema tickets, entry to visitor attractions or even a coffee and a slice of cake.
At its heart, Time Credits is a simple concept, you give an hour and you get an hour back. This simple concept, when embedded into even very complex services can support both the individual and the professional staff to work in new ways.
Find out more about Tempo Time Credits here.
Molly Sweeney
Groundwork London, Waltham Forest
Molly Sweeney is the Volunteering Project Manager for Groundwork London in Waltham Forest, managing the Legends of the Forest programme. She has been working in volunteering since 2018.
Groundwork London’s vision is of a society of sustainable communities that are vibrant, healthy, and safe, that respect the local and global environment, and where individuals and enterprises prosper. Although unfortunately, they know that this isn’t the reality for many living in London in 2023.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the steep rise in the cost of living have amplified inequalities and challenges facing individuals and communities across London. This includes poverty, health inequalities, and access to decent work, housing, and open spaces. They are also facing the ever-present global threat of the climate crisis. At Groundwork, they believe that a real lasting change requires a holistic approach that benefits people, places, and the planet. For them, this starts with communities.
Molly will be joining us to discuss designing volunteer roles for the twenties. This session will explore how to innovate and explore different approaches to volunteering. While also responding to an extremely challenging operating environment. Focusing on three models of volunteering, this will be an interesting session that will ensure that participants leave with the next steps to refine their volunteering offer for the twenties.
Terri Thomason
Association of Volunteer Managers (AVM)
Terri is the Head of Business Development for the Association of Volunteer Managers, leading on membership, income generation, partnerships and the operational running of the organisation.
She will be joining us to discuss how the AVM can support volunteer managers in their roles.
Terri has spent her career working for charities and not-for-profits with a passion for supporting people to get the best out of them. Before that she worked for the National Trust for 11 years in a variety of roles at a variety of properties including retail and catering at a Roman villa; overseeing the day-to-day operations at the visitor centre of a Capability Brown landscape garden; managing all things visitor-related at a 5,000 acre countryside estate; leading visitor experience, membership and retail teams at a 17th manor house and garden and finally as a membership promotion Consultant, supporting properties across the South East with the recruitment and retention of members and customer service delivery.
Find out more about the AVM here.
Timo Becker
Timo is a Doctor of Philosophy and a Professor at Hochschule Kaiserslautern in Germany, a University of Applied Sciences.
He’ll be joining us to discuss developing a strategic framework to incorporate objectives from different stakeholders.
Socio-cultural initiatives are complex activities with a great variety of issues, such as natural resource endowments, quality and quantity of labour, capital availability and access, productive and overhead investments, entrepreneurial culture and attitude, physical infrastructures, sectoral structure, technological infrastructure and progress, open mind, public support systems, and so forth.
This poses a difficult challenge for planning and evaluating activities and measures. Most strategic approaches are either solely economically oriented or are not diverse enough in general.
Timo’s approach offers a strategic framework for the integration of a multitude of economic and non-economic factors as well as diverse objectives of different stakeholders. He proposes the so-called ‘Logic Model’ as a central systematic to integrate these factors.
Lee Weightman
Lee is the Senior Customer Success Manager for First Advantage. In his role, he is responsible for all their partners and channel community.
First Advantage is a global leader in Background Screening. They use their technology/digital-first process to streamline the DBS and background screening process. Lee will join us to cover the First Advantage integration into the TeamKinetic platform and how they can help with DBS checking and digital DBS verification.
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