Encouraging inclusion
Encouraging inclusion: recruiting and retaining a diverse group of volunteers
Inclusion, equity and diversity is a common area that volunteer-involving organisations can find difficult, so if this is a challenge for you, you are not alone! This challenge can be solved by considering how your aims around volunteering inclusion and diversity link with your overall organisational aims, having a systematic way to approach inclusion, and committing the necessary time and other resources.
Half day workshop
This workshop is aimed at anyone in organisations that involve volunteers, and will:
- Look at what research tells us about volunteers and diversity from the start to the end of volunteers’ journeys
- Examine some of the challenges in supporting and retaining a diverse group of volunteers
- Consider how volunteer diversity relates to your overall organisation’s aims (and vice versa)
- Introduce a framework for how to think about and address volunteer equality, diversity and inclusion, from reaching out to potential volunteers to making sure they have a positive experience whilst they’re with you
- Provide some practical ideas about what’s worked for other organisations and enable you to get ideas from others.
You will leave the session with an action plan of next steps for your organisation.
In-house cost: £500 + trainer’s expenses