The Volunteer Network Centre, Newham
SOME PREVIOUS EVENTS
TRAINING WORKSHOPS FOR VOLUNTEER INVOLVING ORGANISATIONS IN NEWHAM
VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT & RETENTION WORKSHOP
Date:
29th October 2009
Time:
Time: 1:30 am - 4:30 pm
Venue:
Ground Floor, Berkeley Business Centre, Citygate House, 246 - 250 Romford Road, London E7 9HZ
The workshop will cover:
- Recruitment Procedure
- Induction
- Problem Solving
- Recognition & Retention
Refreshments will be provided and a Certificate of Attendance will be given to each participant.
If you would like to book your place on either one or both of the above training workshops, please contact
Eyasu Buba on
020 8536 1937 or via e-mail:
eyasu.buba@vncnewham.co.uk.
TRAINING WORKSHOPS FOR VOLUNTEER INVOLVING ORGANISATIONS IN NEWHAM
1. "WHEN IS A VOLUNTEER NOT A VOLUNTEER?"
Date:
Thursday, 16th July 2009
Time:
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Venue:
Ground Floor, Berkeley Business Centre, City Gate House, 246 - 250 Romford Road, London E7 9HZ
If you pay your workers you need to be able to understand what their employment status is. People who work a few hours a week, once a month or less regularly often just invoice the organisation and act as free-lance, but does this mean that they are genuinely self-employed? In reality they are more likely to be part-time employees and this means that they have certain rights under employment law.
This useful training session aimed at people volunteering on Management Committees will look at what a volunteer, an employee, and a self-employed worker is and is not. It will explore what organisations can practically do if their "free-lancers" turn out to be part-time employees.
The VNC, Newham is quite pleased to work in partnership with MODA and LVSC PEACe Project in organising the above training workshop.
2. VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT & RETENTION WORKSHOP
Date:
30th July 2009
Time:
Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Venue:
Ground Floor, Berkeley Business Centre, Citygate House, 246 - 250 Romford Road, London E7 9HZ
The workshop will cover:
- Recruitment
- Induction
- Problem Solving
- Motivation, Recognition & Retention
Refreshments will be provided and a Certificate of Attendance will be given to each participant.
If you would like to book your place on either one or both of the above training workshops, please contact
Eyasu Buba on
020 8536 1937 or via e-mail:
eyasu.buba@vncnewham.co.uk.
VOLUNTEER POLICIES WORKSHOP
FOR VOLUNTEER INVOLVING ORGANISATIONS IN NEWHAM & THE SURROUNDING AREAS
Date:
30th April 2009
Time:
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Venue:
Berkeley Business Centre, Citygate House, 246-250 Romford Road, London E7 9HZ
The workshop will cover:
- Induction and training
- Expenses
- Insurance
- Equal Opportunities and diversity
- Health and Safety
- Grievance and Disciplinary procedures
- Confidentiality
A Certificate of Attendance will be given to each participant.
Refreshments will be provided.
If you would like to book your place, please contact
Eyasu Buba on
020 8536 1937 or via e-mail:
eyasu.buba@vncnewham.co.uk.
Schedule for Training Workshops on Volunteering Management in 2009
Volunteer Supervision and Support - Thursday 29th January
Volunteer Policies - Thursday 30th April
Volunteering and the Law - Thursday 30th July
Volunteer Recruitment and Retainment - Thursday 29th October
Additional topics to be announced
If you are interested in any of these workshops please speak to Eyasu Buba on
020 8536 1937 or via e-mail:
eyasu.buba@vncnewham.co.uk for details of times, venues etc.
VOLUNTEER POLICIES WORKSHOP
FOR VOLUNTEER INVOLVING ORGANISATIONS IN NEWHAM & THE SURROUNDING AREAS
Date:
29th January 2009
Time:
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Venue:
Berkeley Business Centre, Citygate House, 246-250 Romford Road, London E7 9HZ
The workshop will cover:
- Induction and training
- Supervision and Support
- Topics selected by Participants at the last workshop
A Certificate of Attendance will be given to each participant.
Refreshments will be provided.
If you would like to book your place, please contact
Eyasu Buba on
020 8536 1937 or via e-mail:
eyasu.buba@vncnewham.co.uk.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY
On Wednesday the 2nd of November 2005. East Ham was treated to good old spruce-up thanks to a bunch of volunteers.
Work at the site, in the grounds of St Mary Magdalene Church in High Street South, included building bird-boxes, site clearance, tree felling and fence repairing.
About 20 folk turned out as part of national Make A Difference Day run by volunteering and training organisation Community Service Volunteers.
The day was organised by Forest Gate based Volunteer Network Centre in partnership with conservation charity BTCV. Help included those from the Newham Volunteer project in East Ham. Newham's Civic Ambassador, Cllr Maureen Jones attended.
Nancy Whiskin, then community development and training officer with the Volunteer Network Centre, said "We achieved what we wanted to. It was fun even though it was raining. The Volunteers still turned up and had a great time. They managed to complete the work we had prioritised."
SKILLS CITY
The Volunteer Network Centre in partnership with Newham's Volunteers were asked to supply volunteers for the Skills City exhibition, which took place from 6th-9th June 2005.
The exhibition took place at the Excel centre and occupied half of the whole building - so you can imagine the size of the display! It's focus was to give people, and in particular young people, an opportunity at actually having a 'go' at their chosen career. In other words, a type of virtual reality career exhibition!
Because of the size of the exhibition we were asked to supply overall 40 volunteers per day! Their jobs/task descriptions included:
- Showing people around
- Registering people attending the exhibition
- Helping with the VIP suite
- Market research
Unfortunately while the event was on the 7/7 bombings took place in London and the attendance of people visiting the exhibition was, for obvious reason, much less than anticipated. We were also expecting a visit from HRH Prince Charles and a host of politicians keen to see the exhibition but they all had to revise their schedules due to the terrible incidents that took place on that day in London.
The volunteers, despite the bombings and the terrible fear we all felt on that day, remained at the show and continued to come in to volunteer on the following days despite the problems with travel links and the obvious concerns left by the aftermath of the bombing. The organisers of the show, who were very impressed with the overall performance of the volunteers, their hard work, enthusiasm and motivation, duly noted this.
We would like to say a big thank you to all the volunteers who participated and to VNU Exhibitions, and in particular Deborah Smith, who completely embraced the concept of volunteers and volunteering and went out of her way to make sure that the volunteers were catered for. Also thank you to Julie Creffield and Petrina (Newham's Volunteers) for giving us the opportunity to join in and a piece of great partnership work and to John Atree (Chief Executive of Skills City) for his enthusiasm for the volunteers.
NATIONAL VOLUNTEERING WEEK 2005
On June 3rd 2005 in celebration of National Volunteering Week 2005, the Volunteer Network Centre in collaboration with Howard Mendick from the NDC (New Deal for Communities) and a variety of volunteer involving groups in Newham held a volunteer networking day at The Hub in Canning Town.
Volunteer Involving Organisation's in Newham including:
- BTCV British Trust for Conservation
- Newham Met Volunteers
- Home Start
- Early Years and Learning Services
- Kidzhaven
- Newham Volunteers
- Newham Youth Offending Team
- RAMP
- Sea Cadets
The group set up some wonderful stalls and talked about the benefits of volunteering to local community members. Over 135 people attended and we had some wonderful music from a Columbian band. Newham Radio was also there to get information about what the groups do and how much people have benefited from volunteering. All groups agreed that it was a wonderful event and we will definitely hold another similar event in the near future.