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Volunteering England National Convention: Workshop presentations

The following presentations are from the 2008 Volunteering England National Convention held in Newcastle Gateshead (23-24 April)

All presentations are provided here in PDF format.

Salim Nazir, Mentoring and Befriending Foundation - The Approved Provider Standard, a national benchmark of mentoring and befriending
Joanna Machin, Institute for Volunteering Research - Assessing the impact of volunteering
Joanna Machin, Institute for Volunteering Research - Assessing the impact of your Volunteer Development Agency
Jess Crocker and Ingela Andersson, NCVO - Compact Advocacy workshop
Mike Marshall, eatsleepthink - Creativity on a budget
Colin Rochester and Jurgen Grotz, Roehampton University - Developing the tools for Building on Success
Caty Collier, Volunteer Centre Nottingham - Different approaches for funding organisations to achieve Investing in Volunteers
Cathy McBain, Volunteering England, Rob Compton, BITC, Alison Semmence, Volunteer Centre Chelmsford and Russ Cottee, Essex Cares - Effective employer-supported volunteering partnerships
Amanda Jones and Sam Stokland, Volunteer Centre Southwark - Excellence in Volunteer Management - the new unit on employer supported volunteering
Adrian Tearle, SSAFA - Excellence in Volunteer Management Programme
Angela Ellis Paine, Institute for Volunteering Research - Exploring the capacity of organisations to involve volunteers
Angela Ellis Paine, Institute for Volunteering Research - Findings from the Helping Out survey
Sue Jones, Volunteer Centre Warrington and Linda Freeman, RunningSports - How Excellence in Volunteer Management can increase your training capacity and be customised for your sector or organisation
Sara Davison and Sue Rich, Metropolitan Police Volunteering Programme - How to run a successful volunteer programme in a statutory service
Heather Allen, Volunteer Centre Dacorum,& Connect Dacorum and Jeoff Colls, Connect Dacorum - How to set up a successful local CSR network
Laura Ferguson, Volunteering England - Is your sports organisation winning when looking after its volunteers?
Tracy Saunders and Kate Engles, Volunteering England - Introduction to Volunteer Management
Louise Hunter and Jane Morland, Northumbrian Water - Just an Hour
Dane Gould, Make it Happen - Learning Loops
Kerrie Fletcher, Leicestershire Volunteer Centre - Modernising the Volunteer Centre network
Sarah Benioff, Office of the Third Sector - Office of the Third Sector and Government's Volunteering Policy
Patrick Scott, Volunteering England - Policy response and campaigning - practical tips to influencing and creating change
Lisa Parker, Nationwide Foundation, Alan Eagle, Abbey Charitable Trust and Cathy McBain, Volunteering England - Professional skills for employer-supported volunteering
Lee Robinson, The Consortium of LGBT Voluntary and Community Organisations - Recruiting volunteers
Martin J Cowling, Total Solutions, Australia - Sabotage - how volunteer managers undermine their programmes
Tiger de Souza, v, Tessa Willow, Volunteer Centre Liverpool and Karen Kemmis-Betty - Supporting youth volunteering: v projects and Volunteer Centres working together
Lenka Setkova, Carnegie UK Trust and Justin Davis-Smith, Volunteering England - The Future of Civil Society
Nick Ockenden, Institute for Volunteering Research - The impact of Government policy on volunteering in community based organisations
Nick Ockenden and Mike Locke, Institute for Volunteering Research - The impact of volunteering on Government and social policy
Sheila Hawkins, Volunteering England - The impact of volunteering on the NHS
Matthew Tagney, Department for Children, Schools and Families - The Independent Safeguarding Authority
Janet Compton, PDSA - The process and benefits of achieving Investing in Volunteers
Lizzie Cole and Swatee Deepak, Volunteering England - Theartofcrazypaving
Michele Turner and Violeta Vajda, VSO - Transforming society through development
Rob Jackson, Volunteering England - Untapped potential - the role of volunteering in the Government's plans for sustainable communities
Laura Ferguson, Volunteering England and Carrie McKenzie, NAVCA - Volunteer Centres engaging with sport - who's who and how to strategically engage with the right people
Martin J Cowling, Total Solutions, Australia - Volunteer Motivation - Key to Transformation
Joanna Machin and Nick Ockenden, Volunteering England and Elaine Hodgin, Gloucestershire Volunteer Centre Network - Volunteering and the Media
Jamie Thomas, Georgina Watts and Chris Penberthy, Red Foundation - Volunteering in need of a makeover?
Lizzie Cole and Swatee Deepak, Volunteering England - Volunteering towards employability
Elaine Willis, Consultant and Patrick Scott, Volunteering England - Working together to make Volunteer Centre quality accreditation a success
Gary Clarke and Jonathan Cushing, Youth Action Network - Youth volunteering

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