Training Programmes

Training

Training and Consultancy for a new model of volunteering

Volunteer Makers helps charities, community and arts and heritage organisations to expand their volunteer engagement and create new and wider connections with their supporter communities.

Volunteer Makers provides training and consultancy in volunteering strategy along with digital tools. Our workshops and consultancy have helped organisations to grow larger pools of supporters linking to increased volunteering and volunteer sign-ups.

We can devise and deliver a training programme for your network or organisation. Our training ranges from workshops for individual organisations to national sector-based training programmes.

Development and delivery of a (up to) 4-hour tailored Strategic Training Workshop:

Our training will help you identify and plan how you can grow, inspire and manage a volunteer and supporter base using digital. It encourages organisations to work together creatively and strategically. This workshop includes one hour of training on the tech. Includes up to two hours of online/virtual training and web technical support post-workshop.

You will take away:

An understanding of what 21st century volunteering is and why a new approach is needed
How you can engage a wider group of volunteers
What Volunteer Makers’ model of engagement is, how you can blend volunteering with public participation and the power of micro-volunteering
Next steps – the step-change you need to make as an organisation
Create an organisation-wide plan
Begin to set-up your Volunteer Makers platform

£1200 + vat plus travel expenses if applicable

Creation of a personalised Volunteer Makers web platform that uses your branding to fit with your other engagement tools (e.g. core website):

Our web platform has valuable functionality – it allows you to match the needs of your organisation to the skills and interests of your supporters, letting people support you in a way that that suits them and directly helps you. Volunteer Makers comes with a challenge database, social media integration tools, communication tools, events management and powerful reporting tools to allow you to measure the financial impact of volunteering.

£1500 + vat

Licence and Hosting Per Annum

Secure hosting; SSL certificate; GDPR compliance; regular software updates
Up to 4000 users; unlimited administrators
£60 + vat per month

Optional

Monthly technical support package, to include training and web technical support
Extra functionality e.g. blogs/news pages; donation buttons; sponsorship/advertising tools and functions

Contact us to find out more about our training programme

What you are saying about the Volunteer Makers training

“The Volunteer Makers training session really sold itself to the team, it demonstrated a clear vision. The team could see the opportunities and during the workshop, Claire helped us to think about our aims for volunteers and where we wanted to be in the future. It helped us to have a shared vision. But also key for buy in was to invite all members of the team as everyone plays a part. To encourage those who are resistant by speaking their language and appealing to how they will personally benefit”

Jessica HartshornRugby Art Gallery and Museum

“Thinking about challenges, including micro ones, has completely made us rethink how we use volunteers. Before we were in a situation where we would recruit volunteers and think how we would use them. Now we look at the programme coming up and think about how to use volunteers on and off site. Fundamental shift for us”

Amanda HartCorinium Museum

“The training was really useful in bringing together the partners and giving us the time and space to reflect on where we all are with volunteering in our various organisations and how we can move forward. For me personally it showed me how the platform can work really well to provide a framework for what is quite a complicated project with a lot of partners”

Pippa SmithSnapping the Stiletto