This national online Museum Development series of webinars will help museums to develop knowledge and skills in Volunteer Recruitment, Volunteer and Volunteer Strategy Development.

We ask that at the point of booking you sign up to all 3 events. If the event becomes oversubscribed, then we will prioritise bookings from organisations who can send a representative to all three sessions.

Thursday 3 March 9:30 - 13.00: Volunteer Recruitment

Thursday 17th March, 9:30 - 13:00: Volunteer Management and Retention

Thursday 24 March, 9:30 - 13:00: Volunteer Strategy Development

What will participants gain?

As a result of attending this webinar series, participants will become equipped or underpin skills and knowledge. including and not limited to:

• designing attractive and diverse volunteer roles whilst considering different approaches to recruitment
• planning for volunteer recruitment, measuring success, and monitoring and evaluation
• reflective practice that leads to sustainable volunteer retention, development and meaningful experiences
• volunteer strategy development that is linked to organisational values, vision and goals

All training will be delivered using a webinar format via Zoom; and will be co-facilitated by two trainers in order to bring their combined experience and to also increase the level of engagement from participants through greater variety in voice and presentation style.

Session leaders:

This webinar series is being hosted by volunteering consultants and specialists Laura Hamilton and Carol Carbine, who both bring more than 40 years of volunteer management experience in the VCSE sector.

Laura has a strong understanding of volunteer management within small and medium-sized organisations and of working with staff to build volunteer management confidence and capacity in these contexts; and runs a successful consultancy (Laura Hamilton Consulting), with a specialist focus on volunteer engagement and management and training and mentoring for volunteer managers.

Carol specialises in training/facilitation and problem-solving/conflict resolution, working within the overseas aid, animal welfare, disability and heritage sectors; and is a qualified NLP Practitioner. Carol offers bespoke training and facilitation through her own consultancy (Carol Carbine Consulting).

Who should attend?

This session is aimed at all Accredited museums and those working towards Accreditation in the North East, West Midlands, SHARE Museums East, Yorkshire and South East Museum Development areas of England and Wales. These webinars are most suitable to groups and organisations that are:

• Open to learning and exploring changes to involving volunteers
• Keen to learn more about and embed inclusive practice into their work on involving volunteers
• Want to review and develop their volunteering strategy

Please note: this event is being run by South East Museum Development. Therefore places are only available to organisations in the South East region. By signing up to the training you agree to adhere to our terms and conditions, including completing the post session evaluation.

By booking a place on to a South East Museum Development training event, you are agreeing to the following :

• To ensure fair distribution, only one representative from each museum can book a place on this training course. Additional bookings from the same museum will go on to a reserve list. Places on this training course will be confirmed by email.
• That you are either a paid staff, a volunteer or a trustee who works within or with a South East museum or heritage organisation which is in Arts Council England’s Accreditation Scheme (either fully accredited or working towards accreditation). Where this is not applicable (i.e. you are a non-accredited museum), you acknowledge that in the event that training is oversubscribed, priority will be given to museums or heritage organisations in the Arts Council England Accreditation Scheme.
• It is a condition of receiving the training provided without charge that the evaluation form is completed by the specified deadline in the email notification, unless a paper evaluation is specifically provided on the day of the training session for completion before the end of the session.

Booking

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