Volunteer leaders, get ready for some inspiring and reassuring insights into volunteering from Ed, a charity CEO who's been around the block. With a long and impressive history leading volunteer-driven organisations, notably Riding for the Disabled and now Dogs for Good, Ed's got a wealth of knowledge to share.
This episode offers some valuable lessons for the sector, as we chat with Ed about crucial things like the strategic importance of putting resources into volunteer management, ways to properly understand and measure the real value of volunteering, the essential partnership between staff and volunteers, the often-overlooked transactional side of volunteering, and the power of getting everyone involved. We also mention some significant research on volunteering done at RDA (you can have a look here: https://rda.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Benefits-of-RDA-Volunteering-1.pdf).
Discover more about the fantastic work of Dogs for Good: https://www.dogsforgood.org/ and have a peek at what we do at Time for Impact: www.timeforimpact.co.uk.
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