Volunteer Strategy Gathering/November 2014

The venue is very distinctive

This event took place on Saturday 29 November, 2014 at the Library of Birmingham, Birmingham

Context

Wikimedia UK organised the event to bring together interested stakeholders to consider our Volunteer Strategy. The intention was to see in what ways we can develop the organisation by creating new approach to project-based volunteering.

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Programme

Time	What	Who
10:00	Arrival & Coffee
10:30am	Welcome & Introduction	Carol Campbell (Wikimedia UK Trustee) and introducing D'Arcy Myers (Interim CEO)
11:00	Wikimedia UK: what does it do and what roles does it involve?	Fabian Tompsett (Volunteer Support Organiser)
11:30am	How can WMUK better engage and support volunteers?
		John Cummings (Volunteer)
12:45 pm	Summary of morning	Edward Hands (Volunteer)
1:00 pm	Lunch
1:45 pm	Outline for afternoon	Edward Hands (Volunteer)
2:00 pm	Gender Gap	Raya Sharbain and Natalie Chan (Volunteers)
2:20pm	The changing funding environment	Katherine Bavage (Wikimedia UK Fundraising Organiser)
2:40pm	Approaches to fundraising	Katherine Bavage (Wikimedia UK Fundraising Organiser)
3:00pm	Tea break
3:15 pm	What characteristics/skills/experience would we like to see in a new CEO?	Michael Maggs (Trustee)
3:45pm	Feedback
4:15pm	How to take things forward
4:45pm	End of conference

Practical details

Travel and parking

Wikimedia UK is happy to pay all reasonable travel expenses for volunteers attending this event. We can also pay for accomodation where this need but please get in touch first (fabian.tompsett(at)wikimedia.org.uk).

Wikimedia will pay for parking and car travel at HMRC rates: See here.

Social

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Next Volunteer Strategy Gathering

• Volunteer Strategy Gathering, February 2015