Masterclass: How to Develop Your Volunteer Strategy
Wednesday 8 November 2023 | 9:30-12:30 | On Zoom | Members £40 and Non-members £60 | Maximum capacity 30
This AVM Masterclass is brought to you in partnership with Vision for Volunteering. The Vision for Volunteering is a ten-year movement to improve the future of volunteering. It frames this progress around five themes: awareness and appreciation, power, equity and inclusion, collaboration, and experimentation. Whether you are creating a volunteering strategy from scratch or updating an existing one, these themes can be used to frame your approach to your strategy to ensure that you’re working towards an inclusive, innovative, ambitious and person-centred future for volunteering.
If you want to take your volunteer strategy from a dusty document in a drawer to a launchpad for building a movement around your cause, this workshop is for you.
You will learn how different organisations approach volunteer strategy development, learn hints and tips about ensuring your volunteer strategy will succeed and explore with peers new approaches to strategy development in your organisation.
The session will use real life case studies and tips to cover:
- Exploring why you might need a volunteer strategy
- Co-producing the strategy with volunteers and volunteer managers
- The difference between a strategy, plan and tactics
- Understanding the internal and external landscape
- Audit and analysis
- Aligning with your organisation’s cause and goal
- Aligning to volunteer motivations and preferences
- Staffing, budget and ways of working – resourcing the strategy
- Some ideas for implementation
- Evaluating and reviewing your strategy live
About the speaker
Laura Elson has worked in volunteer involvement for almost 20 years and now works as an independent consultant specialising in supporting organisations to build ambitious and cohesive volunteer strategies that build movements around a cause.
Laura has worked in volunteer leadership roles at a number of grassroots organisations, Volunteer Centre Leeds, Parkinson’s UK, and England Netball. In 2015 she worked with Nesta and NCVO to research, test and develop prison based volunteer centres and in 2018 set up a consultancy to focus on volunteering strategy projects full time. As a consultant she has helped a wide range of organisations develop innovative volunteer strategies including Kinship, The Marine Conservation Society, England Netball, The Churches Conservation Trust, The Solicitors’ Charity, The Peak District National Park Authority and the MS Society.
Laura is an Associate Consultant with NCVO, Consultants for Good and Fair Development. She volunteers as Strategic Lead for Volunteering with Yorkshire Netball, and as a trustee of Getting on Board, the national trustee recruitment and diversity charity.
About the collaboration between AVM and Vision for Volunteering
AVM is a member organisation of the Vision for Volunteering partnership board, and is committed to supporting the 10 year project to help create a better future for volunteering. Find out more about the Vision for Volunteering vision and themes at visionforvolunteering.org.uk.
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AVM members’ discount
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If you’re not an AVM member, you can join AVM today to access your discount to this, and future public events – including our annual conference, which takes place every October – as well as other benefits of AVM membership, including:
- Exclusive member-only events, including AVM’s book club
- A back catalogue of selected past events (AVM Replay), in our Resources section of the website
- Exclusive webcasts (AVM BiteSize), in our Resources section of the website
- AVM Connect, which randomly connects you with another member for a chat, to expand your networks
- AVM’s mentoring programme
- A private member-only group on the Voluntary Voice online forum
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