Digital Volunteering Forum with VocalEyes

VocalEyes’ Digital Volunteering Forum aims to address the growing trend of digital and remote volunteering in the arts and heritage sectors and beyond.

Event speakers will bring the expertise that they have gained through running successful digital volunteering projects, and will offer advice and answer questions on best practice. Through a mixture of presentations and panel discussions, we seek to empower organisations to explore a range of aspects of digital volunteering, how make it inclusive and accessible, and question the future of volunteer engagement in their sector.

VocalEyes encourages those working in volunteer recruitment and engagement, senior leadership, digital, EDI and HR to attend.

BSL interpretation and speech-to-text reporting will be available in every session. There will be a 30-minute break, and 5-minute breaks between each speaker. The event will be recorded and the recording and transcript will be available afterwards. Upon signing up, you will receive the Zoom link.

Please get in touch if you have any access requirements by emailing catrin@vocaleyes.co.uk

You can submit questions for our speakers and panel ahead of the forum on our Google Form: https://forms.gle/uCoZs1RBVupshnnD8

The forum is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of Heritage Access 2022.

Schedule:

9:45 - 10:00: Welcome and introductions
10:05 - 10:35: Mauro Venegas, Volunteer Coordinator at Attitude is Everything
10:40 - 11:10: Claire-Rose Canavan, Northern Ireland Development Officer at The Heritage Trust Network
11:15 - 11:45 : Hear from 3 volunteers about their experience of digital volunteering
11:45 - 12:15: Break
12:15 - 12:45: Catrin Podgorski, Project and Volunteer Manager at VocalEyes
12:50 - 13:20: Tamsin Russell, Workforce Development Officer at Museums Association
13:25 - 14:10: Panel discussion chaired by Matthew Hick, Head of Volunteering at the Science Museum Group and Chair of the Heritage Volunteering Group with our forum speakers and Catrin Podgorski, Project and Volunteer Engagement Manager at VocalEyes
14:10 - 14:15: Wrap-up