VOLUNTEER AND VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING: A CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (July 2011 )
Are volunteers important to your organisation?
Would you find it useful to be able to understand how your volunteers and volunteer management compare with other similar organisations?
Could this information help demonstrate your value added to your Senior Management Team/Board?
Agenda Consulting in partnership with the Association of Volunteer Managers (AVM) are launching a new benchmarking study covering volunteers and volunteer management. The study has already received considerable interest.
Scope is running training for staff and has had a number of cancellations. We would like to open it up to AVM members. It is VERY last minute, so if you do want to go just email nikki.squelch@scope.org.uk so I can give your name to the trainer and make a copy of the below.
Supported by a number of its partners and European policy-makers, Volonteurope will be holding an afternoon seminar on the 'Value of Volunteering' on Thursday 3 March 2011 at Europe House, 14:00-16:30, in London.
Volonteurope is delighted to announce the following speakers for the seminar:
The Court of Appeal has today handed down its first decision on the issue of the status of volunteers which considered whether volunteers are protected from acts of discrimination on grounds of disability.
In the case of X v Mid-Sussex CAB, the Court of Appeal, upholding the earlier decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, confirmed that volunteers are not afforded protection by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 or by the European Equal Treatment Legislation. BWB acted for the CAB.
If any of you have tried to figure out how to make the most of your membership, then try the help button where we can at least learn to help each other.
Thanks to a great session with Patrick, AVM web Guru, I and I hope the others have develeoped the confidence to do more then read what others put up. Thanks Patrick!
On a recent trip to Australia, there was much coverage in the news about a 'think tank' type summit looking forward to 2020. The new Labour Government was looking for a few new ideas to help make Australia a better nation. There were some good ideas that I liked, for example, volunteering as a way of paying off your HECS debt (the cost of going to Uni = about A$40,000 for the standard degree) off.
