Events

Event Information:

• Tue

  09

  Aug

  2022

  A Vision for Volunteering in Reading – Workshop for volunteers

  13:30 - 15:00RVA Community Place

  Third Floor, Reading Central Library, Abbey Square, Reading, RG1 3BQ

  The previous two years have seen significant changes in the landscape of volunteering across the UK. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, volunteers have been mobilised in unprecedented numbers to take on novel tasks. The experience here in Reading has been no different with thousands of individuals coming forward to volunteer in a host of different ways.

  As the crisis stage of the pandemic gives way to a focus on recovery, volunteers are likely to continue to play a vital role as organisations seek to meet the challenge of rising demands for their services.

  Now would seem an ideal time to review the volunteering landscape in the town and to work together in creating a Vision for Volunteering that ensures it continues to benefit Reading’s residents.

  Working alongside Alliance for Cohesion and Racial Equality and Connect Reading we want to work with the broadest possible range of stakeholders to co-produce a Vision for Volunteering that will help ensure that we make the best use of the resources, skills and motivation across the town.

  In this workshop, we will introduce the background to the Vision and start the discussions on its development by exploring what aspects of volunteering you value the most and which could be improved upon. The workshop will be relevant to anyone who volunteers in whatever capacity. It doesn’t matter if this involves supporting a registered charity or community group, lending a hand in your local school or helping out a neighbour. It doesn’t even matter if you would describe what you are doing as volunteering, we would still very much welcome your insight.

  Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk