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Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd: December 2014

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Engaging and inspiring people to bring about change. Friday, 12 December 2014. Wednesday, 3 December 2014. Three lessons for volunteer programmes from customer service. Dan, a colleague of mine at the volunteer management software provider, Better Impact. Recently recommended a new blog to follow called " Win The Customer. Initial impressions have been good so I've added it to my already lengthy list of blogs I follow. The Rise Of The Mobile Wallet. What is less common is online signup to volunteering&#4...

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Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd: July 2015

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Engaging and inspiring people to bring about change. Wednesday, 29 July 2015. Five tips for recruiting volunteers. Regular readers will know I mainly use this blog to look at topical or important issues facing the volunteering field. Every now and again I like to throw in a more practical, how to, post so here are five top tips when it comes to recruiting volunteers. Here are some questions to ask:. What do you want the volunteer to do? Who would be the ideal volunteer for this role? If you need them dur...

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Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd: June 2014

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Engaging and inspiring people to bring about change. Thursday, 5 June 2014. Three ways the Keep Volunteering Voluntary campaign may be doing more harm than good. In my last blog post. I wrote about the Keep Volunteering Voluntary campaign. KVV) and the misunderstanding propagated by the UK media that the government's new Help To Work. Let me say it again, Community Work Placements (CWP) under Help to Work ARE NOT VOLUNTEERING. Section 2.14 of the guidance for providers of community work placements. As ch...

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Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd: The volunteer is always right? Wrong!

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Engaging and inspiring people to bring about change. Thursday, 21 May 2015. The volunteer is always right? I've recently been reviewing my. Training material on dealing with problem behaviour by volunteers. It's not my favourite course to run because I much prefer to work with clients to help them try and avoid problems with their volunteers. Sadly, however, dealing with problem behaviour remains a common issue when it comes to working with volunteers. There can be all sorts of causes for this. I've also...

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Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd: February 2014

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Engaging and inspiring people to bring about change. Monday, 24 February 2014. Four ideas for educating new staff about volunteers. One of the regular training gigs I have is to run a half-day 'working with volunteers' seminar for people who are thinking of working in the non-profit sector. The seminar is part of a course NCVO. When I was invited to run this seminar for the first time I asked myself 'How often does a chance like this come along? Here are four ideas:. Give new starters something out of th...

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The Cowling Report: December 2012

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Practical Stuff for Not For Profits. Find out what I'm doing, Follow Me :). Wednesday, December 19, 2012. As of January 16, 2013 I have taken a new role as the Assistant Secretary in the Social Inclusion Unit and Office for the Not-for-Profit Sector in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet based in Canberra, Australia. Note that this is a full-time job, meaning it will now be my professional priority. In the coming six months, I will be thinking about what to do with my wonderful. All the very best.

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Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd: April 2015

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Engaging and inspiring people to bring about change. Thursday, 16 April 2015. What I think about the latest Tory proposal on volunteering. Last Friday (10 April 2015) David Cameron announced that if the Conservatives win the UK General Election on 7th May 2015 they would introduce a new legal right for employees in the public sector and large private firms to have three days a year of paid leave in order to volunteer. CIPD (the professional body for Human Resources) welcomed. 8220;This is exciting news &...

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Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd: January 2015

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Engaging and inspiring people to bring about change. Wednesday, 28 January 2015. To Pay Or Not To Pay? That is the question. We're very pleased to welcome back guest blogger Mel White. Mel wrote a two country perspective on volunteering and welfare to work schemes. For us late in 2014 and now brings that same dual nation perspective to the issue of reimbursing volunteer expenses. In my 18 months here I have had the conversation regarding travel expenses with so many professionals and felt I needed to rec...

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Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd: October 2014

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Engaging and inspiring people to bring about change. Wednesday, 22 October 2014. Five things I'd like to say about calculating the economic value of volunteering. Since incorporating Volunteering England into their work, NCVO. Have started producing some good blogs on volunteering. These are mainly written by their Executive Director of Volunteering and Development, Justin Davis Smith. Former Volunteering England CEO) but good material from other authors appears too. I'm not going to attempt a full analy...