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Volunteer recruitment, retention and reducing the barriers
Volunteer recruitment and retention are becoming increasingly difficult across the voluntary sector, with rising demand for services and the added strain of the current economic climate on people’s time.
Tuesday 4th March
12-1pm
Join us for this one-hour FREE webinar which will focus on the importance of stepping back to view your recruitment process through the eyes of potential volunteers. How will they learn about your opportunities? What motivates them to engage? And most importantly, what does their onboarding experience look like? These reflections can help ensure you don't lose potential volunteers along the way.
Presenter bio: Clare Nazerali, Director Home-Start Hillingdon
With over 20 years of experience in the Voluntary and Community Sector, Clare is driven by a passion for inspiring and empowering individuals to reach their full potential. Clare's career began in second-tier support, where she gained extensive knowledge in organisational development and the importance of building strong, collaborative relationships within teams, the wider community, and with statutory and corporate partners.
After becoming a parent, Clare joined Home-Start as a Co-ordinator, seeking a role that would allow her to balance family life with meaningful service delivery. In this role, she witnessed firsthand the transformative power of volunteering—empowering local peer-support volunteers to help vulnerable families and build stronger, more resilient communities. This reinforced Clare's deep belief in the value of relationship-building and community support.
As Director of Home-Start Hillingdon since 2021, Clare has fostered a culture of collaboration, connection, and enablement. Her leadership is focused on ensuring that they help Hillingdon's families give their children the best possible start in life. Clare brings a data-driven approach alongside a strong emphasis on local partnerships, and is proud to have led the organisation through a period of significant growth, strengthening its impact and reach within the community.
Coaching and mentoring charity CEOs: The case for time and money
Given the unprecedented range of leadership challenges currently facing charity CEOs, coaching and mentoring offer them an important potential form of personal support and development. Yet charity CEOs often find it difficult to justify spending money, and sometimes even just time, on their own personal development.
Join us for this one-hour webinar where Dr Andy Bird will share the findings of a recent doctoral research study exploring the roles that coaching and mentoring play for charity CEOs in the UK.
Wednesday 23rd April
12-1pm
Presenter bio: Dr Andy Bird
Andy Bird is an executive coach and mentor who supports people looking to flourish and succeed as leaders. He holds a doctorate in coaching and mentoring and works with a diverse range of leaders in charities, start-ups and larger corporates. He has also written two books – The Inspired Leader (Bloomsbury) and The Growth Drivers (Wiley).
Andy’s career began with Unilever where he worked for 15 years. His last role was leading their Marketing Academy, the group responsible for building marketing capabilities across Unilever’s global organisation. In 2000, he left to become Co-Founder of Brand Learning, a specialist capability-building consultancy. When Brand Learning was acquired by Accenture in 2017, Andy moved on to focus independently on his coaching activities and research.
Leading successful hybrid and remote teams in the charity and non-profit sector
In this webinar, Rob will share the learning from his extensive experience of leading successful hybrid and remote teams in the charity sector. Key learning points and takeaways will include:
- The benefits of hybrid and remote approaches
- Developing the underpinning culture and environment to enable success
- Hints, tips and strategies for hybrid and remote leadership and developing teams
- Avoiding the pitfalls and getting the best out of this way of working.
Wednesday 14th May
12-1pm
Join us for this one-hour FREE webinar to discover the key to leading successful hybrid and remote teams in the charity sector.
Presenter bio: Rob Avann
Rob Avann is a Charity Consultant and Interim CEO, with over 8 years’ experience as a charity CEO and 16 years’ experience as a Trustee with multiple charities in different parts of the sector. An avid volunteer, he is also a mentor to other charity CEOs, especially those in their first appointment. Rob provides leadership, governance and strategy support to charities and charity leaders.
To book in a chat, please visit his website at orchardparkconsulting.co.uk or email him at [email protected]
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