2. Welcome Address: Heather Baumohl
Opening Address: Fiona Dawe CBE
10.30 Workshops
a) Learning from volunteers about volunteer management
b) Connecting, learning, sharing
c) The value of volunteer managers
11.40
12.00
13.00
13.20
Comfort break and networking
Panel Discussion
Lunch and AVM AGM
Key findings from Volunteers Count
5. Annual Review
• The AVM Board has seen changes in personnel and roles.
• AVM continues to work on your behalf by talking with various
organisations and attending events to help raise the profile of
volunteer management.
• AVM maintains working relationships with a range of organisations
including NCVO, NNVIA and IVO.
• AVM contributes to UKVPM’s and other online discussions.
• During Volunteers’ Week, AVM blogged about the contributions
made by the thousands of people who lead or organise
volunteering.
• AVM has been unable to be as visible as the Board would have liked
to be during the last year.
10. Finding Our Voice – John Ramsey
• What guides us in how we
manage?
• Are we any good at
managing?
• How do we know?
• How do you know?
• How do you know the volunteer
manager sat next to you is
competent?
• How do you know the volunteer
manager sat next to you is
ensuring the best experience and
outcome for the volunteer, the
beneficiary/client, the local
community and the organisation?
• How do you know the volunteer
manager sat next to you has the
same principles as you when it
comes to managing volunteers?
11. Finding Our Voice – John Ramsey
• The formalisation of
standards and the objective
measurement of them, is
one of the key ways in
which professions becomes
respected and established.
Our failure to do so is
stopping the development
of volunteer management
in any meaningful way.
• The secret is to achieve a
Code of Conduct that works
for volunteer management,
but that doesn’t devalue
the diversity and flexibility
that volunteering requires.
12. Finding Our Voice - TOGETHER
• Will you use your
voice and help to
develop the Code
of Volunteering
Practice
16. Workshops:
a) Learning from volunteers about volunteer
management – Helen Timbrell, (UK)
b) Connecting, Learning, Sharing – Sue Jones
and Chris Huffee, (Germany)
c) The value of volunteer managers – Rob
Jackson, (Argentina)
18. Panel, chaired by Nikki Squelch
Volunteer Engagement versus Volunteer
Management: have we got the emphasis
right for the future?
• Ruth Bravery, Director of Volunteering and
Community Involvement at Marie Cure Cancer Care
• Steven Howlett, Academic and Author of “Volunteer
and the Society in the 21st Century”
• Tiger de Souza, Head of Volunteering, NSPCC
19. Lunch time options:
1) Lunch and networking
2) AVM AGM followed by lunch
3) Working lunch and ‘Key findings from
Volunteers Count 2013 - the sectors volunteer and
volunteer management benchmarking study’
Roger Parry, Agenda Consulting (Argentina at
13:20)
Afternoon: 14:00 with workshops in all 3 rooms
20. Annual General Meeting 2013,
Wednesday 23rd October, Agenda
1. Welcome
2. AVM Review of the Year, Heather Baumohl, Chair
3. Financial Report, Carola Vorlop, Treasurer
4. Elections to the Board of Directors
5. Special Resolution to amend AVM’s Articles of
Association
6. Any Other Business
7. Close
21. Special Resolution, Annual General Meeting 2013,
By removing article 3.4
Each Director may serve as a Director of the Association for a
maximum of 3 consecutive years and shall retire as a Director of
the Association. However, any Director retiring in accordance
with this article shall be eligible for immediate reappointment as
a Director if his appointment is approved by an Ordinary
Resolution of the members at a general meeting, provided that
the Director has not served more than 6 consecutive years or, in
the case of the Chairman, 9 consecutive years.
By adding the new article numbered 3.4
Each Director may serve as a Director of the Association for a
maximum of 3 consecutive years and shall retire as a Director of
the Association. However, any Director retiring in accordance
with this article shall be eligible for immediate reappointment as
a Director if his appointment is approved by an Ordinary
Resolution of the members at a general meeting.
22. 14.00 Workshops:
a) Learning from volunteers about volunteer
management – Helen Timbrell, (UK)
b) Connecting, Learning, Sharing – Sue Jones
and Chris Huffee, (Germany)
c) The value of volunteer managers – Rob
Jackson, (Argentina)
24. 14.00 Workshops
a) Learning from volunteers about volunteer management
b) Connecting, learning, sharing
c) The value of volunteer managers
15.10 Comfort break and networking
15.30 Plenary Session
16.00 Closing Address
16.10 Close and Fringe Sessions
17.00+ Networking Drinks
29. Fringe Sessions at 16.10
The Personalisation Agenda – how will personal
budgets impact on volunteering? Nikki Squelch,
Alzheimer's Society, (Germany)
Defining the Profession – developing a code of
practice for managers of volunteers, with Debbie
Usiskin and Heather Baumohl , AVM, (Argentina)
(17.00+ Networking drinks at the Rack and Tenter pub)
I would like to welcome you to the AVM Conference 2013. No matter who you are, where you are from or how you are feeling I am sure you will find something of interest as you participate in the day. This conference is entitled Finding Your Voice and we encourage you to take part during the day. Some of you will feel comfortable using your voice in larger groups and others may prefer a one-to-one conversation. Please take this opportunity to speak to one another during the day and with members of the AVM Board. I would like to introduce you to: Debbie Usiskin; Alan Murray; Rachael Bayley; Steve Gee; Patrick Daniels; Helen Timbrell.
I would like to give you a brief overview of what AVM has been doing during the past year.
We would like to hear your voice. If you have ideas how we can help represent you in your volunteering role then please let us know.
Would you like to see Volunteer Management a recognised profession similar to the Institute of Fundraising or the Counselling profession? Use your voice and let us know what we need to do to make this happen/
AVM are asking you for your ideas to help our thinking. The board of AVM currently has 8 people sitting on it. We can’t do it on our own so please as you hear from the different speakers during the day think how you might find your voice – in your work place; amongst your family and friends; with your peers; on social media; by joining AVM – if you are not already a member or by joining the Board if you are a member.
Over the coming months AVM would like to begin to set the standards of volunteering. Volunteering is diverse and volunteer managers work in very different organisations and in very different ways – for example small, medium or large charities; full time hands on volunteer management or volunteer management may only be part of your role; some volunteer managers engage in strategy; purely operational or a mixture of the two; some are part of the senior leadership team and some don’t get the opportunity to influence how the organisation works with volunteers. Whatever we do we manage volunteers. AVM would like to lead the development of a Code of Volunteering Practice which we believe will lead to a professionalisation of volunteer mangement.
Some of you will know or have Heard of John Ramsey. John was the founder member of AVM. The sad news is that John has an inoperable Brain Tumour. He sends this conference a message:
We want to develop a code of practice that allows all who manage volunteers to sign up. We also want the code to enable the diversity and flexibility that volunteering requires
During the day please listen to what is said, reflect and then let your voice be heard. If you want to influence the Code of Volunteering Practice then join Debbie and myself at the Fringe session at 4.10 this afternoon or if you wish to attend Nikki’s session on the Personalisation Agenda or need to leave before 4.10 then do contact Debbie or myself with your thoughts.