Lucy Townsend, community engagement officer, Teach First Visit the CharityComms website to view slides from past events, see what events we have coming up and to check out what else we do: www.charitycomms.org.uk

1. Working with Volunteers
21 January 2016

2. Overview
• Introduction to Teach First
• Recruiting volunteers
• Maintaining volunteer engagement
• Providing development opportunities for volunteers
• Expanding your volunteer pool

3. Teach First
• No child’s educational success should be limited by their socio-
economic background
• Placing graduates and career changers into challenging schools across
England and Wales
• 4000 alumni, many of whom volunteer with us and other organisations
• Futures programme: supporting sixth form students into university

4. Volunteer roles at Teach First
• Supporting our teacher training programme
• Supporting our university access programme for sixth formers
• Engaging corporate sponsors

5. Recruiting volunteers
• Recruiting using email campaigns
• Recruiting using online communities
• Supporting trainee teachers
• Providing them with training linked to their careers
• Working in challenging schools

6. Maintaining volunteer engagement
• How to manage too many volunteers
• How to keep volunteers updated
• Matching experience and expertise
• Balancing volunteer priorities and organisational needs

7. Providing development opportunities to volunteers
• Advertising volunteer roles appropriately
• Applications to volunteer
• Managing expectations
• Providing references

8. Expanding your pool of volunteers
• Changing your messaging for different stakeholders
• Funders and partner organisations
• Working with service users
• Advertising more widely

10. Visit the CharityComms website to view
slides from past events, see what
events we have coming up and to
check out what else we do:
www.charitycomms.org.uk

11. Internal
communications:
from staff to volunteers
North West Regional Group
21 January 2016
Manchester
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