PRESS RELEASE
1 September 2006
Volunteering England, the national development agency for volunteers, has appointed Rob Jackson as Director of Volunteering Development and Grant Making. Rob, who has been Regional Volunteering Development Manager at Volunteering England since April 2005, will start his new job on 11 September, and will be responsible for the grants, sport and health and social care teams, as well as the regional volunteering development project.
Rob has worked in the volunteering sector since July 1994. During that time he has managed volunteers and volunteer programmes in education, advice, fundraising and children’s services settings at local, regional and national levels.
Between 1999 and 2005 Rob led the development of volunteer fundraising at the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB). During this time he chaired the Institute of Fundraising’s working party that developed the UK’s first code of good practice on volunteer fundraising and spent nine months running the Fundraising (Strategy) Department.
Rob also writes, speaks and trains on volunteer programme management internationally and pioneers the use of the Internet as a means of networking among managers of volunteers and volunteer programmes in the UK through UKVPMs (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UKVPMs), the first email networking resource for UK based Volunteer Programme Managers.
Commenting on his appointment, Rob said: “This is an exciting time for volunteering and Volunteering England in particular. I am looking forward to the challenge of cementing Volunteering England’s status as a leading grant maker whilst also building on the success of our development work.”
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Notes to Editors
For more information on Volunteering England, call Cat Dean on 020 7520 8932 oremail cat.dean@volunteeringengland.org.For out of hours press enquiries, contact Sonya Roberts on 07952 128057. For interviews with Rob, email rob.jackson@volunteeringengland.org or call 07921 049 583.
Volunteering England’s aims are to increase the quality, quantity, contribution and accessibility of volunteering throughout England; secure and support an England-wide network of quality volunteer development agencies, promoting and enabling volunteering and community involvement; undertake research, policy and development activity; and provide grants, support and advice to sustain and develop volunteering. It understands the term volunteering to include formal activity undertaken through public, private and voluntary organisations as well as informal community participation.
