Come along and get some ideas about how you can shake up your volunteering program and stand out above the rest!
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š£ The UK startup scene is booming š£
It is brimming with knowledge and skills. Being
part of this community has given us incredible
access to super-smart people.
š£ The UK startup scene is booming š£ It is brimming with knowledge and skills. Being part of this community has given us incredible access to super-smart people.
This got us wondering, could we
give charities some of the same access?
This got us wondering, could we give charities some of the same access?
Well here is our answer... We will be bringing top startup operators and founders to speak about areas of expertise that translate well into charity functions and volunteer management. We will also have a number of speakers from within the sector too.
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Agenda
Please arrive promptly
Ash was a volunteer befriender for Age UK and found the whole process could be improved. This sparked an idea that has now grown into Volunteero. Along with his cofounders Luca and Kedar, they are on a mission to make volunteering flexible, accessible and fun through the use of technology.
Over three years of operating we have gone from a team of 5 staff and 5 volunteers to 34 staff and 42 volunteers
Over three years of operating we have gone from a team of 5 staff and 5 volunteers to 34 staff and 42 volunteers
Community is in Mattās veins. When he was 4, he attended the weekly "Cowley Club" (named after our road) hosted by his Mum in their tiny house for young girls in our neighbourhood that needed a role model.
Later, after studying languages and literature at university and then living abroad, Matt developed a fascination for how language influences culture and community. This passion found an initial corporate home in marketing but he was itching for an opportunity to build a Cowley Club of my own.
In 2018, Matt and two friends left our jobs to set up 'Waffle' - a non-profit Community Waffle House driven by a passion for putting conversations back into communities and subsidized by Belgian desserts.
They have since expanded into a nearby town and working with the NHS have set up a Waffle in a local community hospital.
Choose Love started as nothing more than a group of friends with a plan. In 2015, absolutely devastated by scenes of thousands of people forced to live in terrible conditions in the Calais refugee camp in northern France, Josie knew she had to do something. Josie studied Anthropology but later decided to pursue a career in the music industry. This career move would see her working with the band Coldplay until the ārefugee crisisā in Europe in 2015.
Using her experience and contacts in the music industry, she rallied together friends with the hashtag #HelpCalais. Within a week, they had raised over Ā£50,000 and were soon receiving thousands of donated items every day- Choose Love was born. Josie has gone on to lead the growth of Choose Love as its CEO and the organisation has now supported almost 5 million people via partnering with almost 400 organisations in 33 countries and raising over $100 million.
Josie is a leading advocate for refugee rights in the UK and is seen as a thought leader across the sector, sheās been named as one of Bill and Melinda Gates āGlobal Goalkeepersā and one of the Evening Standard's Progress 1000 āChangemakersā. She has spoken at events alongside Bill Gates and Barack Obama.
Break time
Kate oversaw the Credit Suisse Charity of the Year programme for 10 years raising Ā£10m+ working with great oragnisations and colleagues.
Kate has over 20 years of experience in the charity and corporate social responsibility sectors. Kate is currently the Director of Philanthropy at CVC. She is responsible for the CVC Foundation grant programme, employee volunteering and giving and works closely with CVC portfolio companies to help develop their CSR strategies and programmes. In addition, Kate is a trustee of the DHL UK Foundation and a school governor.
Forbes and Campaign 30 Under 30 Winner
An award-winning culture marketing specialist, passionate about placing brands at the heart of street culture whilst empowering the grassroots communities that drive it. Founder of youth culture marketing agency Nerds Collective and Dyslexic.Nuanced Insight. Cultural Strategy. Unorthodox Creative.
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Co-founder of Gingernuts Creative and a Diabetes UK brand ambassador
Mat is a content creator and the co-founder of Gingernuts Creative, a social first content creation agency, creates digital content for brands social media channels and advising them on the minefield that is (or can feel like) social media.
Mat is also a brand ambassador for Diabetes UK and seeing the social growth on their channel because of creators like himself is so rewarding! Matt also had over 10 million views of a duck putting on a CGM (continuous glucose monitor) to my armā¦
Lunch time!
Our Dementia Choir is a UK charity based in Nottinghamshire supporting people living with dementia. They will be performing a few well-known hits to get folks up for the afternoon session! If youād like to know more about them, checkout their website here: https://www.ourdementiachoir.com/
Watch 3 amazing grassroots organisations pitch live on stage for the chance to win Ā£10k in funding from our generous donors as well as free use of Volunteero. We hope this will be an exciting and different style of a session and a chance to give a boost to a wonderful cause.
If you know an organisation that should apply, the application form can be found here and the deadline is the 16th of March 2023.
Break time!
Rebranding the charity has helped us to be taken seriously by funders and partners in a way that we never could have been before
Meryl joined Re-engage after several years with international development organisations. Her work at Re-engage is very much influenced by her experience working with many different volunteers and other stakeholders in the UK and elsewhere. Harnessing technology is at the heart of Re-engage's strategy and Meryl has overseen a digital transformation at Re-engage which is focussed on sustainability and scalability in the future
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Youāve made it this far, why not stick around for some complimentary drinks!
