On Wednesday 5th June 2024, we hosted our Wandsworth Voluntary Sector Forum event. The theme of this event was to discuss all things volunteering.
We heard from fantastic guest speakers who shared more about what they do. Our first guest speaker was Laurel Sherriff who is the Project Administrator Officer at Olmec Diversify London and she works on the Black on Board project. Olmec are a Black and Minoritised Communities led race equality organisation. They champion race equality through economic and social justice. They provide Voluntary Sector Organisations with trained, board ready candidates from their Black on Board Programme.
We also talked in groups about how organisations advertise for volunteer roles and what they find works and what doesn’t, how best to engage with corporates and businesses to get volunteers, and lastly what volunteers themselves find exciting and fun about volunteering in general as well as their personal experiences. We also discussed how we can best unlock funds and resources for volunteer roles.
We heard from our speakers:
Phillip Smith – Training and Development Manager at Wandsworth Council
Fenn Porter – Interim Public Health Lead at Wandsworth Council
Akash Khosla – Skilled Volunteering Officer at LinkUp London
James Pierce – Organisational Development Manager at Wandsworth Council
We had many different organisations attend who were:
-VSF Chair
-Elays Network
-Enable LC
-Older People’s Forum
-Learn To Love To Read
-Oxfam
-Mind Works
-Age UK Wandsworth
-Richmond and Wandsworth Council
-Fine Cell Work
-Kooth
-Power2Connect
In case you missed us, here is the link to the presentation we delivered below.
Don’t forget to sign up and save the date for our next Voluntary Sector Forum.