NORTHERN LINCOLNSHIRE VOLUNTEER MANAGERS NETWORK
Wednesday 22nd May 2019 – 9.30am – 12noon
The Community Hub, Freshney Place Shopping Centre, Grimsby DN31 1ED
A G E N D A
- Welcome and Introductions
2. Time Well Spent Report– “Ensuring that your volunteer experiences are time well spent based on latest research”
3. To Pay or not to pay? – When should volunteers pay for any part of their experience?
4. Volunteer Expenses & HMRC Advice –
5. How aware are you volunteers about Cyber Security?
Networking break
6. Volunteer Week – Standing Item-Update
Event Thursday 6th June
What are you doing throughout the week?
- Open Forum
- Can everyone come prepared with a problem/issue/bugbear/worry related to Volunteering
- & a positive volunteering experience to share
- Future meeting dates (All meetings 9.30am to 12noon)
31st July – Green Future
We are looking for organisations to host these meetings, can you help?
25th September
27th November
PLEASE NOTE: Booking essential – please reply to liz@vanel.org.uk
by telephone or email by Monday 20th May 2019 to confirm attendance (for refreshment purposes).
PAYMENT INFORMATION:
- Organisations that annually subscribe to the Volunteer Development Service: this meeting is part of your subscription fee.
- Organisations that do not subscribe to the Volunteer Development Service: £10 per organization (up to 2 places per organisation)
- On receipt of confirmation of attendance your organisation will be invoiced for this meeting.
On Thursday 6th June, members of the Volunteer Managers Network and our Volunteer Centre will be outside The Barge in Grimsby, along with Hattie the Community Bus, to hold a Volunteer Celebration Event. We’re there from 10am-3pm. If you’re a volunteer, thinking of volunteering, need volunteers or already host them, we’d love to see you during the day. For more information contact Liz at VANEL (liz@vanel.org.uk, 01472 231123).
You can read the story about this event on our blog here.
Download this poster (as .pdf) here.
Members of the Volunteer Development Service (VDS) along with VANEL staff getting ready for Volunteers Week 2019.
The Volunteer Managers Network has been getting ready for Volunteers Week too. Look forward to seeing you in Grimsby on the 6th June.
Grimsby in Bloom are holding a Litter Pick/River Clean on the June 8th to celebrate the Queens Birthday and World Oceans Day (10:00 – 13:00).
The VANEL Annual General Meeting (AGM) for 2019 will take place at Grimsby Neighbourhood Centre on Thursday 10th October 2019 at 11.30am.
All details about the event are here.
The Annual General Meeting will take place at
Grimsby Neighbourhood Centre
289a Weelsby Street
Great Grimsby
N E Lincolnshire
DN32 7JW
The formal Annual General Meeting begins at 11.30am on 10th October.
After the AGM, at 12noon there will be a light buffet provided and staff and trustees will be on hand for networking and chatting about our various services.
If you’re able to make it to the AGM, please turn up any time after 11am. The AGM at 11.30am is short and you can then stay around for refreshments.
Please let us know whether you, or someone else from your organisation is able to attend the Annual General Meeting on 10th October.
Either phone Peter Hewson at VANEL on 01472 231123.
Or email peter@vanel.org.uk or agm@vanel.org.uk
You should have received a “Reply slip” with your invitation letter, and you can either email this back as above or post it to us at
VANEL, 23 Bargate, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire DN34 4SS
Or you can tell us you are coming via the electronic reply form below:
If you are unable to make the AGM, please still let us know if you can.
Thank you