AVM Conference 2014

1. Speak Up
Your voice, together with AVM,
advancing our profession
October, 2014
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2. 10.10 Key note speech: Dr Justin Davies-Smith
10.40 Workshops
• Youth Volunteering, Sophie Wellings, Committee Rm5
• The challenges of working with Remote Volunteers,
Nikki Squelch and Helen Johnston, Committee Rm 6
• Professionalization of Volunteer Management,
Debbie Usiskin and Patrick Daniels, Main Hall
11.45 Comfort break and networking
12.00 Plenary: Jamie Ward-Smith
13.00 Lunch and AVM AGM (@13.20)

3. Welcome: Rachael Bayley
Director of AVM
• Our hash tag today is #avm14
• What makes you feel valued? wall….
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4. 10.10 Key note speech: Dr Justin Davies-Smith
10.40 Workshops
• Youth Volunteering, Sophie Wellings, Committee Rm5
• The challenges of working with Remote Volunteers,
Nikki Squelch and Helen Johnston, Committee Rm 6
• Professionalization of Volunteer Management,
Debbie Usiskin and Patrick Daniels, Main Hall
11.45 Comfort break and networking
12.00 Plenary: Jamie Ward-Smith
13.00 Lunch and AVM AGM (@13.20)

5. Steve Gee
Director of AVM
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info@volunteermanagers.org.uk

6. John Ramsey, 1970 - 2014

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8. Is formal volunteering finished?
Dr Justin Davis-Smith
Executive Director of Volunteering and
Development, National Council for
Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)
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9. Workshops
a. Youth Volunteering, Sophie Wellings, Committee Rm5
Why organisations want to attract young people and
what young people want from volunteering?
b. The challenges of working with Remote Volunteers,
what does this mean for our practice? With Nikki
Squelch and Helen Johnston, Committee Rm 6
c. Professionalisation of Volunteer Management?
Progress towards a code for volunteer managers,
Debbie Usiskin and Patrick Daniels, Main Hall
11.45 Comfort break and networking

10. www.volunteermanagers.org.uk
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11. What can the new Do-It platform
do for your organisation, your
volunteer management and your
volunteers?
Jamie Ward-Smith
Founder & CEO, Do-it Trust
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12. Lunch time options:
1) Lunch and AGM, 1:20 open to members
2) Lunch and networking
3) Write on the how you want to be valued
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Afternoon:
13:55 go to your workshop room
14:00 with workshops in 3 rooms
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13. 13:55 Workshops
a) Friends with Benefits: Why volunteer managers
must learn to learn from others, with Tiger de Souza
and Helen Timbrell, Main Hall
b) Valuing Volunteer Management and securing top
corridor buy-in , with Rob Jackson and Debbie
Usiskin, Committee Rm 5
c) ‘Light touch’ Volunteer Management – what does
it look like and how do you do it, with Wendy
McGauley and Clive Pankhurst, Committee Rm 6
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14. Lunch time options:
1) Lunch and AGM, 1:20 open to members
2) Lunch and networking
3) Write on the how you want to be valued
wall
Afternoon:
13:55 go to your workshop room
14:00 with workshops in 3 rooms
15:10 tea, coffee and networking
#avm14

15. Annual General Meeting 2014,
Thursday 23rd October, Agenda
1. Welcome – Heather Baumohl, Chair
2. Review of the Year, Helen Timbrell, Director
3. Financial Report, Patrick Daniels, Treasurer
4. Elections to the Board of Directors
5. Any Other Business
6. Close

16. Workshops at 13:55 please go to:
a) Friends with Benefits: Why volunteer managers
must learn to learn from others, with Tiger de Souza
and Helen Timbrell, Main Hall
b) Valuing Volunteer Management and securing top
corridor buy-in , with Rob Jackson and Debbie
Usiskin, Committee Rm 5
c) ‘Light touch’ Volunteer Management – what does
it look like and how do you do it, with Wendy
McGauley and Clive Pankhurst, Committee Rm 6
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18. Just had tea and coffee
15:30 Key note speech: Joe Saxton,
nfpSynergy
16:15 Closing address: Heather Baumohl,
Chair
16:30 Close and informal drinks
at the Euston Flyer
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19. #avm14
The new alchemy:
how volunteer managers turn
donations of time into
human gold
Joe Saxton
Driver of Ideas, nfpSynergy

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21. Closing Address
Heather Baumohl
Chair
Association of Volunteer Managers
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22. We love feedback: survey monkey
Join AVM!
Networking Drinks at The Euston Flyer,
83-87 Euston Road, Kings Cross, NW1 2RA
Thank you
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23. Thank you and goodbye !

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