Volunteer Strategy Day
Join us on 24 April for a practical day of developing a strategy for your charity’s retail volunteering programme. Together, we’ll spend time exploring the current context of your volunteer offer, define your aspirations for engaging volunteers, and outline the steps needed to bring your vision to life. In a nutshell, you will come away with a clear plan for how to progress with your retail volunteering strategy.
Date: Thursday 24 April 2025
Venue: Hospice of St Francis, Spring Garden Lane, Off Shootersway, Berkhamsted, Herts, HP4 3GW
Timings: 9.30am registration for a 9.45am start – 4.30pm finish
Cost: £100 + VAT per ticket
There will be free parking at the venue.
What you’ll gain:
● A comprehensive understanding of the volunteering landscape—both within your charity and the sector —and how it affects your retail volunteering programme.
● Clarity on your aspirations for retail volunteering and a clear picture of what success looks like.
● Practical tools and insights to prioritise your next steps and take meaningful action.
● An engaging and collaborative day of learning with your peers from across the sector.
Who should attend:
If you work in a small/medium sized charity retailer and you have responsibility for developing volunteering, this day would be ideal for you to attend.
Further support:
To enable you to get the most out of the day, you will be sent some pre-work in advance and you will be invited to a peer support webinar on Friday 6 June 10:00 – 12:00. This is to talk through progress with your plan and learn from others who attended the session.
About the trainers:
Charlotte brings over 19 years experience of involving volunteers across the charity sector, having worked for organisations such as Sense, The Myton Hospices, and Macmillan Cancer Support in senior leadership roles. Charlotte is also vice chair of trustees for Bliss and a non-exec director for the Association of Volunteer Managers (AVM).
Using her experience of developing and implementing volunteering strategy and building high-performing teams, she is a trainer, facilitator and consultant specialising in the development of those who manage and work with volunteers.
Dan O’Driscoll, founder of Engagement Consultancy, brings over 19 years of experience in the charity, commercial, and higher education sectors. As a consultant, he has worked extensively with charities supporting them with strategic consultancy projects focusing on reviewing their volunteering programmes, policies, and practices.
As a qualified executive coach, Dan has a deep passion in unlocking people’s potential, improving their performance and creating lasting outcomes. As an experienced facilitator Dan runs workshops and away days focusing on leadership development, high performance and inclusion & access.
Prior to running his consultancy and executive coaching business Dan worked for Oxfam as Head of Volunteering and Engagement where he set the tone and strategic direction for how the organisation worked with and engaged with volunteers.
For any questions about this event, please contact Julia Edwards, Head of Outreach on julia@charityretail.org.uk