Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers

Training details

Volunteer recruitment is a constant challenge for many organisations. This workshop will explore the volunteer journey and how your organisation can recruit. Equipped with this knowledge you will have the chance to critique current volunteer recruitment campaigns, consider different ways of working and learn about current developments in the sector in Oxfordshire and how OCVA can help.

There will be opportunities throughout the session to reflect on your current methods of recruitment and volunteer management. OCVA’s Volunteering Development Manager will offer her thoughts on how to retain volunteers based on professional experience and the findings of national research.

Who should attend?

This workshop covers the basics of volunteer recruitment and is aimed at those who are interested in the subject area. You may be new to volunteer recruitment (whether as a paid member of staff or a volunteer responsible for recruiting or managing other volunteers). Experienced recruiters may wish to use the opportunity to reflect and review their organisation’s current practice and develop their volunteer recruitment strategies in line with new developments and research.

No prior knowledge is required to attend.

What will I learn?

By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Identify what motivates people to start volunteering
• Reflect on the volunteering opportunities currently offered by your organisation
• Describe a range of methods for delivering a volunteer recruitment campaign
• Identify the range of ways OCVA can help you to recruit and how to use Oxon Volunteers more effectively
• Reflect on why volunteers leave your organisation
• Identify strategies and approaches to aid volunteer retention.

Trainer

Jenny Bowley is OCVA’s Deputy CEO. She has spent the last twenty years in Youth and Community work, working in education, local council, social housing, and health. Her roles as Community Youth Officer, Community Development Officer and Volunteering Development Manager have extended her knowledge of the VCS sector. Jenny has had a variety of voluntary roles to give her first-hand experience of volunteering, both as volunteer and in her ten years running a youth organisation, a volunteer manager. In her current role at OCVA, she works to raise the profile of volunteering and helps organisations to achieve their outcomes through the recruitment and retention of volunteers as well as offering advice and guidance on volunteering policy and processes. 

Cost:

£40 per person for OCVA Members
£55 per person from a charitable organisation who are not OCVA members
£70 per person from a non-charitable organisation

Time:
10 am – 1 pm. There will be a short break halfway through the session. 

Course venue:
The Source (next door to OCVA office),
Floyd’s Row,
Oxford OX1 1SS

Details of getting into Oxford by bus, cycle, car or train can be found here. Please note there is no parking at the venue.

Click on 'Book Now' at the bottom of this page to book your place. If the event is fully booked, please register to add your name to the waiting list. 

Please note, if you are booking on behalf of another/others, you must have their names and email addresses ready. If they do not have an email address, please contact us by emailing training@ocva.org.uk.