TeamKinetic are proud to announce that we are now a consortium partner working with the Sport and Recreation Alliance and Join In, alongside other recognised partners, who share the vision of growing the volunteer network, which is vital for the development of sport and activities, for both organisations and individuals within the future.
Throughout this partnership, Team Kinetic have a view to:
Ensure that more opportunities become available for a greater number of organisations. Therefore, promoting a positive message regarding volunteering to a wider audience.
Grow the future of volunteer research and assist with the management of volunteers, for a range of organisations.
To, Recruit, Reward and be Relevant within the market place.
Through working towards these goals, TeamKinetic are adding to the future of volunteer management and assisting with the recruitment for organisations who currently have/ or are looking to have volunteers that: take part within activities, improve an organisation with more active participants and can promote a healthier lifestyle. Demonstrating the importance of recruiting individuals who have been inspired and are interested to become active by volunteering, and are able to find the correct organisation in order to start taking part.
Overall, we share the vision with our fellow consortium partners that volunteering is integral to sport throughout every level and we will work together to make sure the future of sport and volunteering continues to grow and develop.
Welcome to the Special edition of the Park Champions newsletter
Our Park Champions celebrated!
Last Thursday, 6th October, we were delighted to host our annual celebration event at The Podium Bar & Kitchen. It was a fantastic evening that enabled us to say thank you to you – the volunteers who have participated in a range of activities within our Park Champion programme over the past year. Over 110 Park Champions attended and we hope all enjoyed themselves.
2016 has been a fantastic year with volunteers racking up a huge 12,800 volunteer hours. There has been an array of volunteering opportunities from providing information, welcoming guests and delivering the park mobility service at the Information Point to supporting the vast number of events including West Ham United and London Lions matches, National Paralympic Day and Sport Relief. Not forgetting those who really got their hands dirty during the conservation and gardening programme.
We are now looking forward to another exciting year in 2017, with a number of major events coming up on the Park. From the IAAF World Championships and World ParaAthletics Championships to community and sports events to help connect local people to the Park, there is sure to be something for everybody to get involved with. Once again we will be running our hugely successful Park mobility service and there will be many new roles to come with new Park partners so keep your eyes peeled for opportunities.
Congratulations to our Park Champions!
Once again we awarded gold, silver and bronze pin badges as a way of saying thank you for your enthusiasm, energy and dedication to the Park and our Park Champion programme.
Those that completed over 50 hours of volunteering were awarded with a bronze pin. For 100 hours of volunteering a silver pin was awarded and for an amazing 150 volunteer hours we awarded a gold pin.
If you are yet to achieve 50 hours do not worry as you still have until 31st December to claim your pin by racking up the hours – all those that have hit the required number of hours by this date will be awarded the pin. All hours will go back to zero on 1st January 2017.
A full list of the volunteers being awarded with pins to date is below, if you were unable to join us at the event last week please come to the Information Point when you are next on shift so that we can award you your pin.
Frank Scavera
736
Mark Orton
622.75
Sahidul Islam
401.5
Peter Barry
363.5
Keith Gabriel
359.25
Henry Mapperley
245
Graham Soames
227.25
Ricky Brown
203
Sarah Chapman
200.25
Edward Wingate
196.75
Olive Wenborn
187.75
Hilary Victor
183.5
Richard Darby
182.75
Lynn Barker
172
Catherine Ellis
149
Trudi Barnes
147.25
Pauline Djian
142
Viveca Dutt
140
Rohit Jobanputra
133.75
Janet Lowe
131.75
Anne Jennings
129.75
Brenda White
121.5
Christine Daniels
115.25
Jenny Marshall
112.5
Feras Al-hamadani
107
Jenni Hurme
99.5
Jacqui Gagan
98.75
Gillian Bourke
97.75
Clive Myers
94.5
Paul Harper
94.25
Alison Richmond
93.25
Jane Huntley
91.75
Oluwafunmike Akande
90.25
Ann Senior
88.5
Andy Macgarr
86.5
Lizzie Newbold
84.75
Alberto Carcaba
81
Karim El-houssami
79.75
Colin Plummer
79
Sally Elton
78.5
Laura Lincoln
77.25
Helen Roycroft
76
Di Russ
74.75
Steven Skamarski
74
Stephen Rowe
72
Pat Strange
66.25
Fatima Lee
65.5
Katie Blake
65.25
Liam Cornwall
64.5
Maggie Mathison
64.25
Lynne Ellis
62.5
Daniel Kovacs
61.5
Hasmita Shah
60.5
Ray Ellis
59.5
Shinobu Wakamatsu
58.75
Ben Waite
58.5
Pauline Martindale
57.75
Geoffrey Longster
57.5
Susan Marchant
57.25
Janet Lambert
57
Kathleen Mcenteggart
57
Janet Davies
56
Stephen Shooman
55.75
Jean Death
54.75
Jane Astin
54
Paul Lazarus
54
Gillian Morgan
52.75
Tim Benson
52.5
Kathryn Taylor Saunders
51.25
Tom Cavanagh
50
Park Champions ride the slide at the ArcelorMittal Orbit
Park Champions also had the opportunity to take on the world’s longest and tallest tunnel slide. It is fair to say that everybody that experienced the thrilling descent loved it! Following their hair-raising descent the volunteers and stakeholders went on a tour of the Park with our two community guides, Di and Stephen.
More photos of the trip are available on the Park Champions Facebook group.
Park Champions – Volunteer experience feedback
To ensure that we are developing a programme that is exciting, engaging, interesting and fun for you, your feedback is hugely important. This is your chance to give us your opinions on how the programme runs currently and how you would like to see it develop.
The world’s best athletes are coming back to London and this is your chance to see them compete for the title of World Champion at The Stadium, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
The London 2017 Organising Committee has launched its search for ‘Runners’ – the volunteer programme for the World ParaAthletics Championships and IAAF World Championships.
They are looking for up to 4,000 volunteers to be at the heart of the Championships, helping to deliver the event in The Stadium, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and across London.
The IAAF World Championships and World ParaAthletics Championships will be the biggest celebration of athletics in the capital since the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Being a Park Champion, your expertise and knowledge of the Park would be an incredible asset to the ‘Runners’ team. If you want to be part of the event please follow the link below: Who can be a Runner?
Everyone! Whatever your background or ability, there are no barriers to being one of our volunteers.
Every Runner will receive an official volunteer uniform to wear during shifts, which you can keep after the Championships as a souvenir, and meal vouchers for The Stadium, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
How do I get involved?
Applications are now open to become a runner and will close at midnight on Sunday 16th October 2016. If you would like any further information before applying, click here to visit the FAQs.
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Throughout the week of 3rd – 9th October 2016, the charity Women in Sport, are running a Women in Sport week, to bring people together who have an involvement in a variety of different activities, in order to increase the profile of female participants across the UK.
During this week, TeamKinetic are focusing on women who volunteer within organisations and are promoting both the involvement and strong importance of female volunteers.
“Women in Sport draws on its unique insight to champion the right of every woman and girl in the UK to take part in, and benefit from, sport: from the field of play to the boardroom, from early years and throughout her life” (Women in Sport, 2016).
With a variety of our clients including: NGBs, CSPs and Local Authorities, we have access to a wide network of women who are currently involved within volunteering. Therefore, ensuring that the events are able to take place by signing up through TeamKinetic’s volunteer management system, making sure that there are a range of different opportunities available for all volunteers.
Furthermore, TeamKinetic demonstrates that women become involved for the right reasons. Alongside, how to reach out to both new and existing female volunteers, who are participating within sports and activity.
Providing a welcoming environment and full support and guidance for the organisations volunteers.
Creating aspirations and goals.
Involve a variety of volunteers to enable varied and exciting opportunities.
Therefore, throughout Women in Sport week, by having an effective volunteer management system in place for your organisation, such as TeamKinetic, encourages you to begin recruiting, managing and organising participants becoming involved in sport and provides more opportunities for women to sign up and start volunteering now. #WSW16
‘TeamKinetic has ensured that the Homeless World Cup could take place through recruiting and gaining volunteers’
Mariana, Marketing Executive, Homeless World Cup
Sporting events across the country would struggle to run efficiently without volunteers. Think about the huge success of the London 2012 Games Makers and their counterparts in Rio. These volunteers were all essential to making the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games successful and in Rio this year, the volunteers at the Olympic Games have once again demonstrated how invaluable they are.
So you won’t be surprised when I tell you that volunteers play a key role in making sure the Homeless World Cup takes place. However, it’s all very well and good getting volunteers to help manage an event but you also need to be able to accurately manage their time and activities. During the Homeless World Cup, we were able to use AccessKinetic, an accreditation system, and VolunteerKinetic, a volunteer management system to recruit and manage our volunteers who participated. These systems are a part of TeamKinetic which is a suite of applications fostering and growing communities that revolve around volunteering.
The Homeless World Cup took place in Glasgow, during July 2016, at George Square. The venue included, three purpose built pitches with seating, which was the main venue for 64 teams, from 51 different countries. The participants included homeless people from all over the globe, who came together to play a sport that they are passionate about, in order to represent their country.
Throughout the event we identified five reasons why TeamKinetic’s service is vital for organisations to manage their volunteers and help others to become active in sport.
1.Involvement
Volunteer involvement was vital for the running, delivery and management of the Homeless World Cup. The various roles taken on by the volunteers meant they had to undertake different responsibilities. These responsibilities helped the players and spectators, promoted the event and encouraged people to play and get involved in sport.
2. Importance
It was vital that the volunteers enjoyed their roles and that the overall event was a success. Throughout the Homeless World Cup, we had an average of 350 volunteers a day. They all had varying roles with different responsibilities – but it was important that they all helped make the atmosphere for both players and spectators phenomenal. Being able to provide the volunteers with the support they needed to carry out their roles meant the event was able to demonstrate the importance of playing sport and using it to bring people together.
3. Spectators
The Homeless World Cup in Glasgow attracted 80,000 spectators. Their attendance was vital to the success of the event but they also played an important role in making sure both players and volunteers felt valued. By experiencing such a positive, and potentially life changing event for the players, volunteers and spectators were able to see first hand the benefits of an active lifestyle. This is excellent news as research shows that attending sporting events is sometimes enough to encourage people to get involved in sport themselves.
‘Five key core motivations for sports event attendees includes: socialisation, performance, excitement, extreme and diversion. Alongside, focusing on the whole experience to grow and promote participation’ (Greenwell et al, 2014)
4. Participation
Volunteers were able to get involved, participate and reflect on the Homeless World Cup via social media. This is because of an integrated function within the TeamKinetic system. It also helped to engage with players attending the event, as they were selected through a variety of trials and training sessions within their home countries. The VolunteerKinetic system and the accredited AccessKinetic badges, meant that all volunteers gained a sense of achievement and responsibility throughout the event.
5. Post Event
There were many vital aspects for the Homeless World Cup to consider after the event. Including monitoring the number of homeless people who participated in the event and continue to play sport to improve their health and lifestyle. At the same time, it also helped engagement with volunteers through the TeamKinetic system so that we were able to keep them involved in future events.
The Homeless World Cup, and other positive sporting events really help to encourage players, spectators and volunteers to #TryYourKitOn and get active.
Team Kinetic co-hosted the second MMU Sports Volunteering Conference, at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, within May 2016. The event covered key themes of volunteering within sport, physical activity and health-related fields, using a mix of practitioner workshops, engaging keynote talks and interactive practitioner-led stands.
Alongside this, the conference titled ‘Sports Volunteering in the Current Landscape’, included a full line up of speakers including: Geoff Thompson MBE from Youth Charter, who discussed helping young people, communities and society as a whole. Charlotte Hill, CEO of Step Up to Serve, who identified the role of evidence in her national programme which runs until 2020. Explaining how they have embed this programme locally and nationally to build uptake. Alongside these, Tony Jameson-Allen from Sporting Memories foundation, offered fascinating insights from the high profile Comic Relief part-funded dementia and sport history well being project discussing how sport plays a major role within helping dementia, and how activators and volunteers play a vital role in supporting the organisation.
The conference was aimed at organisations and individuals who have a role in recruiting, managing and deploying volunteers, as well as those with a strategic view of volunteer development and growth.
Catherine Elliott – Senior Lecturer, MMU said “We want to create a place where volunteering is examined in a professional manner. Starting the conversation to understand the role of the volunteer is vital, so that you can evaluate the value and potential of their support. The conference reflected on the dynamism of the volunteer space, with discussions and first hand, real world involvement being explained to a variety of organisations, to teach valuable experience and develop their growth”.
While there are many types of volunteer opportunities, they all share something in common: the people donating their time want to be acknowledged for their hard work. Showing your appreciation to every volunteer can be difficult, especially across a large organisation. How do you acknowledge the varying contributions they make? How do you even know?
To start, your organisation needs to create a plan for thanking volunteers — no matter how many hours they contribute to your cause.
Think about it: when an organisation hosts a crowdfunding campaign, they create a strategy for how they’re going to acknowledge donors. From sending out thank-you letters via email to showing their appreciation on social media, there are multiple ways organisations thank donors. And the same techniques can be used to show volunteers you care.
Through the support of volunteer management tools, you’ll have a record of supportes who have volunteered. Use that knowledge to send out thank-you letters soon after a volunteer has donated their time.
Moreover, if you recently held a fundraising event with help of your volunteer workforce, you should show your gratitude publically by posting a thank you on social media.
Additionally, your organisation must look at how you are recognising volunteers within your senior management team and resource volunteering within your operational teams. Do you have a person or persons with a responsibility for volunteering within your organisation at each level of management?
It starts from the top. Is there an acknowledgement at board level as to the importance of valuing volunteers? Bearing in mind you’re a voluntary organisation! That would be a great place to start. We know that when volunteering is valued within an organisation’s culture, you are much more likely to see amazing results.
Once you have some sort of volunteer management in place, you need to consider how you identify and recognise those people who are the “diamonds” for your organisation. These are the future volunteer leaders, those volunteers that operate over a wide range and number of volunteers and that inspire and mentor other volunteers.
To spot these volunteer leader candidates, develop a role in your organisation that examines your volunteer workforce. This role identifies the data and information you need to capture, and understands what motivates your volunteers and then uses that knowledge to facilitate and enable volunteer experiences that are fulfilling and rewarding. Read about our experiences in data insight and what we consider to be the most valuable data or take a look at the work of Join In.
Once you’ve identified volunteers that could potentially become leaders, it’s important to keep them engaged in your nonprofit. That way, your organisation can cultivate them into leaders who can manage and motivate others.
Keep in mind: it is easy for organisations to fall into the trap of offering great rewards and incentives, but the key is to invest in the right people rather than spreading it too thinly across too many individuals. Incentivisation is part of a successful volunteer team, but you need to know what your return on investment is going to be. Who are you spending on? What do you expect in return? Are you investing wisely? Having data on volunteer retention, cost per conversion, being able to map an individual’s pathway from starting out as a helper through to running a county executive or becoming a head coach. This data ensures that you remain focused on finding those “diamonds”.
Finally and we think most importantly you need to look at how you grow from a centrally administered and controlled volunteer programme, to one that is owned by the volunteers, clubs, and participants themselves. Any expanding and successful volunteer programme is partly the result of a groundswell of people from the bottom, not diktats from the top, you need to build volunteer leader infrastructure (by that I mean find great, motivated people and provide them with support, training and resources) that facilitates and enables your existing volunteers to help to offer more amazing, exciting opportunities to the next wave of volunteers. This is the virtuous circle of volunteer investment.
So to recap we think the most important things you can do to help your volunteer programme grow all year round is to;
Achieve an appreciation and acceptance at the very top of your organisation that values the investment volunteers make in your organisation. Value your volunteers.
Develop specific roles within your organisation whose job is to collate your volunteer data and gain insight which can be used to improve your programme. Do not just collect key performance indicators.
Incentivise and reward volunteers all year round. Be smart, target rewards for best returns.
Identify, support and develop potential volunteer leaders. Leverage their experience and enthusiasm to spread your volunteer values.
Sport is known to be poor at retaining its volunteers, it’s time to move on from yearly gestures to look at understanding your rank and file stakeholders (not just members but mums and dads, siblings, and long-standing supporters), what they want and how you can deliver to keep them engaged. We work with organisations to make valuing volunteers an important part of their culture and offer solutions that help with those issues outlined and encourage retention and development of volunteers. Our cloud applications, including VolunteerKinetic, provide an easy- to-implement infrastructure that makes embedding good volunteer practice across your organisation simple.
I hope next International Volunteer Week I can write a blog where I talk about how we have moved into a world where your volunteer is understood and is looked after as well as your CEO.
Many of the organisations we work with offer the same reservations about initiating a new Volunteer Management System.
“Do we really need another IT system? Why can’t we just use our CRM system?”
We are living in a time of rapid technological change and organisations are fighting to keep up with that change whilst battling for attention in an increasingly busy marketplace. Its my aim to try and answer the question above but to also give you some food for thought on how you may future proof your IT infrastructure and grow your organisations ability to effectively communicate with your fans, members, coaches, volunteers, officials and, other stakeholders.
We live in the Post PC world where your various users have choice over how they want to keep in contact with you. This includes phones, tablets, computers, smart TV’s, PC’s and Macs as well as old world technology like magazines and news letters. Netflix has come to dominate the “Video on demand” space through making sure its service is ubiquitous, that is it is available on all platforms. Now I’m not suggesting you are Netflix, but the lesson is clear, know where your users are and prioritize those platforms for development.
Another important lesson from Netflix is to make sure the experience is consistent across those platforms.If people have a bad experience on their phone with your web site or app, their opinion will be diminished across any other digital content you offer.
Not only do we have so many ways to plug in to the digital world, we have an even larger range of software options and channels to communicate through that space;Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Chat Bots, Google.These channels provide vast infrastructure and reach but as more and more options become available the cost of keeping all these relevant and interesting becomes harder and harder, also your audience gets further and further segmented making each option less attractive for total market reach.
How do you create an infrastructure that will be able to continue to cope with the endless developments that are coming down the line? Can you build in a manner that allows you create you own communities? If you build your own community do you know how to track its opinions and trends effectively? Can you extract value from that relationship commercially, operationally and socially?
Let start with CRM and the problems it solve and creates.
There is a clue in the name, Customer Relationship Management. In its self it seems to make sense and you could argue it would solve some of the issues I have pointed out above, but let me explain what the issues are:
“Customers”. If I’m selling widgets this approach makes sense, but in a sporting context who are your customers, is it the clubs, the members, the helpers, the fans?
This “customer” focused approach does not encompass the complexities your organisation faces. You do have examples where there is clearly a customer relationship and taking elements from good customer service is never a bad idea, but there are many other examples where you are stakeholder, signposting service, community leader, advisor, service provider, trainer and manager. Your relationship with your “customers” is vastly more complex than most retail or service organisations. Each user group listed has a very specific set of requirements from you.
CRM also makes the assumption that everything will go through you directly as an organisation. What we have learnt over the last 7 years is that communities really thrive when you, a central governing organisation, give your members, customers and interested parties, the tools they need to be independent and to take ownership of their own destiny.
I am not suggesting that a CRM policy is not important, and you should consider it carefully but not at the expense of the end user. Your CRM should be flexible to allow you to work with other solutions. It should provide a data and insight backbone through which you can track opportunities and direct contact. But as the world becomes more complex it is unreasonable to assume it can undertake every aspect of your business communications strategy.
Our particular area of expertise is Volunteer Management, they are not members often, do not always self-identify as Volunteers and they are defiantly not customers.Their roles vary from helpers to chair of your board.Our system provides specific tools for the specific job. Events management, schedule setting, opportunity brokerage, skills mapping and training to name some headline functions.
Providing high powered tools that do a specific job very well, gives your organisation the opportunity to see exponential performance improvement and the ability to achieve new levels of scale.
Our volunteer platform allows Manchester City Council to provide a service for over 7000 users with only one staff member.
So how do you get your CRM system and other specialist systems working more effectively together to get the best outcomes for your users?
Reduce account duplication and sign up fatigue.
Leveraging open auth ecosystems like sign in with Facebook, Google and so on, reduces friction for your users and also reduces the duplication of accounts. As a bonus it also gives a smooth route to encouraging users to share their experiences.
Don’t force square pegs into round holes.
Membership, CRM, content management, social media management; each have very specific requirements, make sure you have the right tool for the job and that they are as tightly coupled as possible so you can share data and get better insights.
Software as a service (SaaS)
SaaS has led to software solutions that are web based and available across multiple platforms at a lower cost. These solutions normally offer specific tools that you can subscribe to as and when you need them.
Don’t get hung up on what you think you want to know
If you provide an easy user experience that encourages user engagement, they will provide you with more insight and data than you will know what to do with. Try and keep your technology focused but most important useful to the end user. If it feels like its more about what you want to know rather than what the end user gets out of using it, they will very quickly disengage. Look at how you collect your data from the way people engage with your various systems and use that data to continually iterate and improve the end user experience.
The story goes that part of the reason Google won the search engine wars in the early 00’s is because they automatically placed the text cursor in the search bar so you did not have to click into it with your mouse. (There was a little more to it that is also worth a read) It really is the marginal gains that lead to excellent end user experience.
The TeamKinetic platform is created using many of the ideals I have shared above.Our software is always undergoing iterative improvements so we can strive towards the best user experience possible. If you would like to find out more about our Volunteering, Workforce, Coaching and Club management systems please feel free to get in touch or visit us here .
All requests for Free tickets must be made by Friday 22nd April – Please don’t miss out
The latest speaker to be confirmed is Yvonne Harrison – Chief Executive at GreaterSport, a leading Greater Manchester Charity Changing Lives through Sport and physical Activity.
Recently announced winner of Public and Third Sector Director of the Year by the North West Institute of Directors, Yvonne is an experienced leader with a track record of delivering positive impact through a high performing team. Providing leadership across Greater Manchester to position Physical Activity and Sport as a key contributor to economic growth and population health improvement.
GreaterSport is striving to get one million people moving by 2017 and works with a wide range of partners to achieve this.
We believe Sport & Physical Activity;
– Makes a significant contribution to Greater Manchester’s social wellbeing and economic growth.
– Enhances lives, brings communities together and forms good sustainable lifelong habits.
– Should be promoted and celebrated for all, here in one of the greatest regions in the World for sport.
Yvonne is also a Non-Executive Director for Manchester Mangers Rugby League Club and Active Tameside. She is also currently studying a Masters in Sports Directorship at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Yvonne will be part of our panel session when member sof the audience will get the chance to discuss the topics of the day with our experts.
To claim your free ticket to this event please get in contact here and let us know the days you will be attending, the names of the people attending on each day and if you can also let me know if you have any specific dietary requirements or access needs that would be most useful.
4th May 2016 – Sports Volunteering in the Current Landscape
All VolunteerKinetic users are entitled to one FREE ticket to this event
The conference will encompass all aspects of volunteering in sport and the wider agenda within the current landscape. It will also provide a platform to draw together practitioners and academic perspectives from across the volunteering landscape to share, collaborate and network. There will also be the opportunity for delegates to attend keynote lectures from academics and practitioners, academic research presentations and interactive practitioner-led workshops. More speakers will be announced as they are confirmed.
If you want to purchase additional tickets for the 4th of May conference you can buy these at:
The conference will encompass all aspects of volunteering in sport and the wider agenda within the current economic and social landscape. It will also provide a platform to draw together practitioners and academic perspectives from across the volunteering landscape to share, collaborate and network.
There will also be the opportunity for delegates to attend keynote lectures from academics and practitioners, academic research presentations and interactive practitioner-led workshops. More speakers will be announced as they are confirmed so please keep an eye on our web site.
We can now officially invite all our customers to the 2nd annual Volunteering conference in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University.
3rd May 2016 – VK Focus Group
VolunteerKinetic Customers only
This year we are extending the event and inviting all our customers to join us on the afternoon of the 3rd May where we hope to discuss the range of developments we have underway for 2016 and 2017. We want to bring you all together to help us build a strong community of Volunteer Managers. We want you to share your experiences and to get your ideas on how we continue to improve our product and how we can help you work better together. We now have some clear user groups including universities, local authorities and sporting organisations and we want to make sure we encourage sharing and support of best practice.
We will start at 1:00pm at MMU All Saints Campus and will be winding up at 5:00pm. The day will be very interactive as we look to get you involved in our development cycle.
The evening of the 3rd we will be hosting a social event in Manchester and we would really like it if you joined us for a glass of wine and a bite to eat.
For those looking for accommodation I have included some links to hotels that are well placed for the University campus.
The conference will encompass all aspects of volunteering in sport and the wider agenda within the current landscape. It will also provide a platform to draw together practitioners and academic perspectives from across the volunteering landscape to share, collaborate and network. There will also be the opportunity for delegates to attend keynote lectures from academics and practitioners, academic research presentations and interactive practitioner-led workshops. More speakers will be announced as they are confirmed.
To claim your free ticket to this event please get in contact here and let us know the days you will be attending, the names of the people attending on each day and if you can also let me know if you have any specific dietary requirements or access needs that would be most useful.
If you want to purchase additional tickets for the 4th of May conference you can buy these at:
