Employer Sponsored Volunteering: Workshop at UCLAN 23rd May

 

Employer Sponsored Volunteering:

Realising the Potential

Monday 23 May, 12pm – 4.00pm

University of Central Lancashire. Preston, Lancashire, PR1 2HE

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in collaboration with the Cabinet Office (Office for Civil Society), Universities of Hull and Sheffield, Business in the Community and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations invite you to a workshop examining the challenges and opportunities of engaging with Employer Sponsored Volunteering (ESV). Lunch will be provided.

Speakers include:

Lynn Saggerson, CEO, Volunteer Centre Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde.

Russell Hogarth, Community Ambassador, UCLan

Stephen Sloss, CEO, Salvere Social Enterprise CIC

Background:

This event forms part of a series of regional workshops across England exploring the challenges of maximising the impact of ESV. Building on indepth research, the event will offer participants from the public, private and third sectors the chance to explore the challenges of building effective and sustainable partnerships. 

We know that when employee volunteering works well, it can add huge value to businesses – from engaging potential customers, clients and suppliers, to developing staff and building morale. The workshop is about unlocking the value for everyone involved.; encouraging cross-sectoral dialogue and asking participants to consider what models of engagement, infrastructural support and brokerage can be developed in order to:

• create an effective model for businesses to utilise ESV engagement within employee skills and learning development.

• help infrastructural organisations to successfully adopt a sustainable brokerage role , in order to support relationships between the third sector and business

• direct available business resources and expertise through volunteering, and potential infrastructural funding to the third sector, maximising impact

• find ways to extend SME participation in this area

In addition, a member of the Office for Civil Society's Local Intelligence Team will also be providing details of the Government's Skills Exchange Campaign and outlining ways in which local organisations can gain support to take it forward.

Further details and online registration is available at:

http://management.sheffield.ac.uk/employer-sponsored-volunteering/

If you would like to reserve a place in advance please email J.Burchell@sheffield.ac.uk