Our aim is to support local groups and organisations across the Black Country area to involve volunteers in a positive way, offering you the tools you need to do so. [If you are not based in the voluntary/community or faith sector in the Black Country, there will be a charge for the training]

Volunteers are wonderful and can make a huge difference to your organisation, but you need to invest time and effort in building a relationship with them for it to work well.

We will be looking at lots of elements to think about when you are supporting volunteers and sharing ideas on what things work well, plus looking at how to deal with things if they go wrong is a great way to learn, so there are some real case studies for you to ponder over later on in our session. I’m sure that by then you will be ‘experts’ and know what you should have in place and how to deal with tricky situations.

The Zoom session will open just after 9:15 am so you can join and get yourself settled and will start promptly at 9:30 am. We will send you the Zoom link to join a few days before the event.

Here's what some attendees from our previous sessions said in their feedback:

* Thanks so much Eileen for the fabulous training, really enjoyed it and learnt so much

* Just going through the resources which are really interesting and helpful as this is a new role/area of work for me.

*The practical/discussion element of today was good – definitely my way of learning.

Accessibility for the sessionPlease let us know if we can do anything to make the training more accessible, eg adding closed captions. Just drop an email to eileen@dudleycvs.org.uk and she will do her best to accommodate your request.

Supporting your volunteers [virtual training session]