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National Volunteer Conference

Conference

Behind Ireland’s thousands of volunteers lie the equally dedicated individuals and organisations responsible for their recruitment, training, support, and management.

These are the people that can inspire volunteers and enable an environment where volunteering can thrive. These are the people that inspire volunteers and enable an environment where volunteers thrive.

This is your opportunity to join your peers, colleagues and leaders in the field of volunteer management from all over the world for a day of professional development, networking and informative, thought-provoking workshops.

Who Should Attend?

  • Groups and organisations (large and small) currently involving volunteers or those thinking of involving volunteers.
  •  Individuals (paid or unpaid) working directly with volunteers or who are responsible for managing volunteers in some capacity.
  • Anyone looking to gain an in-depth understanding of best practice in volunteer management.

The programme

Our programme will give you an insight to volunteering here in Ireland and will also include insightful inputs from International Speakers on their experiences in Australia, Canada and the UK.  Martin J Cowling is our keynote speaker this year and will look at the issue of equipping paid staff to work with volunteers.  Tony Goodrow from Canada will introduce us to The Scarce Resources Model for Measuring the Return on Investment of Volunteer Engagement while Nikki Squelch from the UK will present how your organisation can benefit from developing a Volunteer Strategy no matter what its size.

Add to that presentations and workshops on Orientating and Training Volunteers, corporate volunteering, The Dublin Tall Ships Festival Volunteers and the London 2012 Olympic Games and you’ve got the event for those managing volunteers like no other … come network and learn with us …

Download the full programme for the event.

Dublin Volunteer Management Seminar

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We are delighted to present the Dublin Volunteer Management Seminar on Tuesday 15 May 2012 which takes place in Pearse Street Library, 138 - 144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2 as part of National Volunteering Week (May 14 – 20). 

Dublin Volunteer Centres have organised a Volunteer Management Seminar looking at topics affecting Volunteer Involving Organisations. 

Programme 

13:30 - 13:45 Registration 

13:45 - 13:55 Opening Address: Yvonne McKenna, CEO Volunteer Ireland 

13:55 - 14:35 1: The relationship between Volunteers and paid Staff. Etain O’Kane 

14:35 - 15:15 2: Risk Management in Volunteering. Stuart Garland 

15:15 - 15:30 Refreshment break 

15:30 - 16:10 3: Involving Older People as Volunteers. Etain O’Kane 

16:10 - 16:50 4: Garda Vetting - Myths and realities.  Tricia Nolan 

16.50 - 17:00 Closing remarks: Edwina Dewart, Manager Dublin City South VC. 

17:00 Close of Seminar 

Speaker Biographies

Etain O' Kaneis a Training & Development Officer with Volunteer Now (Northern Ireland). She has worked for charities that address social issues for over twelve years providing training on a wide range of issues. She has a background in charity finance and governance, project management and lobbying to influence public policy, and has a broad range of experience working with voluntary and community groups of varying compositions and capacity. Her academic qualifications are to Masters level in psychology and counselling along with a range of training and professional qualifications.

Stuart Garland is the Manager of Fingal Volunteer Centre. Stuart has worked in a wide range of roles in the Voluntary and Community sector since 1993 and comes from a background in youth work. Stuart is a national accreditor for European Voluntary Service (EVS) in Ireland. More recently Stuart has been a Volunteer Coordinator managing a team of 192 volunteers. He was a board member of a number of youth and volunteer involving organisations over the last number of years.  Stuart holds a Diploma in Human Resource Management and a Diploma in First Line Management and is a graduate of the National College of Ireland. He also holds a Certificate in Teaching & Learning.

Tricia Nolan is manager of South Dublin County Volunteer Centre. Tricia has been with the centre since its foundation in 1998. As well as managing the volunteer centre, Tricia has been instrumental in driving forward the development of a national infrastructure for volunteering having being a founder member and chairperson of Volunteer Centres Ireland. Tricia sat on the national committee on volunteering from 2000 - 2002 and was part of the subcommittee tasked with writing "tipping the balance" which laid the foundation for the present volunteering infrastructure in Ireland. Alongside her work in the volunteer centre, Tricia is also involved in volunteering with several local and national projects in the youth, sports and arts sectors.

Who Should Attend? 

• Groups and organisations from the Greater Dublin Area (large and small) currently involving volunteers or those thinking of involving volunteers. 

• Individuals (paid or unpaid) working directly with volunteers or who are responsible for managing volunteers in some capacity. 

Registration 

To attend this Free seminar you must register via our online booking system: (http://volunteerdublin.eventbrite.ie) Please note that entry is by ticket only and tickets are limited to 100. 

Download a brochure for the seminar (Adobe pdf)

We look forward to seeing you at the Seminar on Tuesday 15 May