Event Summary
Volunteers are among your most valuable assets. Their worth extends far beyond the hours they contribute. They bring communities together, enrich democracy, and improve lives. Engaged volunteers are advocates, fundraisers, and long-term supporters of your cause.
Westminster Insight’s Volunteer Management Conference will help you build a volunteer management strategy fit for the future. Leave with timely updates and practical insight on the issues that matter most: how to invest in your volunteer workforce, strengthen your offer, connect with new audiences, and deliver an experience rewarding enough to keep volunteers with you for the long-term.
Recruitment and outreach. We will explore how organisations can move beyond their existing networks to connect with younger people, diverse communities and those who have historically been excluded from volunteering – and how to deliver targeted outreach that converts interest into action.
Retention. In a practical workshop, we will help you understand what is really driving attrition in your organisation and identify the steps you can take to build an environment where volunteers feel genuinely valued, meaningfully engaged and motivated to keep contributing. From induction and supervision through to reward, recognition, and wellbeing, we will cover the full range of drivers that determine whether a volunteer stays or walks away.
Developing your offer. Volunteering is changing. Today’s volunteers want flexibility and opportunities that fit around modern lives – and organisations must respond to these expectations. We will explore how to adapt your offer to embrace flexible and micro-volunteering, unlock the potential of skills-based roles, and build a corporate volunteering offer that works for everyone.
Measuring impact. We will share practical frameworks for measuring the social and economic value of your volunteer programme, and hear lived experience of what makes a volunteering experience truly worthwhile.
Volunteering sits at the heart of community life in the UK. Don’t miss this timely conference bringing together leading voices and practical insight from across the sector.
Key Points
- Developing a clear volunteering strategy and vision: setting direction for 2027
- Reaching new volunteers and converting interest into action: making the ask simple, open and flexible
- Inclusive recruitment: key considerations for engaging underrepresented groups, tailoring your message and volunteer offer to connect with the right people
- The rise of flexible and micro-volunteering: redesigning roles to fit modern lives and widen participation
- Mobilising volunteers in local democracy and to communities
- Corporate and cross-sector partnerships: leveraging employer-supported volunteering to grow your volunteer base
- Volunteer retention: understanding why volunteers leave and how to keep them engaged long-term
- Small organisations, big impact: building effective volunteer programmes on limited resources
- Data-driven volunteer management: tracking metrics, gathering feedback, and measuring social value in volunteering
- Improving the volunteer experience: reward, recognition and wellbeing as drivers of long-term commitment
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