Dear Colleagues,

 

MLA London has some places remaining on the following two training courses taking place in September.  These courses, as are most other MLA London courses, are open to everyone working in museums, libraries, and archives not just in London, but throughout the whole of the UK.  For our full training programme please click here.

 

Diversifying your Volunteer Team – Tuesday 25^th September 2007

Introduction to Fundraising – Thursday 27^th September 2007

 

To download a booking form please click here .

 

Kind Regards

 

Paddy McNulty

Workforce Development Co-ordinator

MLA London

 

Diversifying Your Volunteer Team

 

Date: Tuesday 25^th September 2007

Time: 9.30am to 1.00pm

Venue: Westminster Archive Centre, 10 St Ann's Street, London SW1P 2DE

 

This event is for anyone working with, or managing volunteers in a museum, library, or archive.

 

Are you hoping to diversify you volunteer base?  Do you want your volunteers to try and reflect the community you serve?  Want advice on how to attract new and a more diverse range of volunteers to your organisation?  If the answer is yes then this event is for you.

 

This workshop is for organisations working with volunteers and aims to root volunteer diversification into the ethos and aims of your organisation, leading to long term diversity of your volunteer base, and show you how your organisation can diversify its volunteers base and help it reflect its local community.

 

Maggie Piazza, from Volunteering England, will deliver this seminar.  It will include presentations, group work and exercises, action planning for the future.

 

By the end of the session you will be able to:

 

• Explain how volunteering contributes to the achievement of organisational aims and objectives
• Explain the benefits of diversifying your volunteer team
• Outline how you can analyse the diversity of your volunteer team compared to the local community
• Ensure that images / descriptions of your organisation reflect the diversity of your local community
• Implement a range of strategies to enable more diverse recruitment of volunteers
• Recognise and address the internal blocks to diversification in your organisation

 

A case study will be presented by Eleanor Clark, Director of the Ragged School Museum (Mile End, London).

 

Cost: £50 for participants from the 33 London Boroughs; £65 for participants from outside of London. One place for a volunteer member of staff at £25 (London only)

 

To download a booking form click here or contact Georgina Siddall on 020 7549 1712.

 

Please return completed forms to:

 

Bookings

MLA London

53-36 Great Sutton Street

London

EC1V 0DG

 

Tel. 020 7549 1712

Fax. 020 7490 5225

e-mail: [log in to unmask]

 

Introduction to Fundraising

 

Date: Thursday 27^th September 2007

Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm

Venue: Association of Anaesthetists, 21 Portland Place, London W1B 1PY

 

This event is for practitioners in museums, libraries, or archives who are new to fundraising or are considering a more strategic approach to fundraising.

 

Fundraising is about communicating a beneficial idea to someone who has the means to make it happen.

 

Delivered by Hopkins Van Mil: Creative Connections, this day aims to provide you with ideas on how to fundraise, what to fundraise for and the funding opportunities available. This session is of particular interest for those who have had very little or no training on fundraising

before and are keen to develop a sustainable approach to bringing in the monies our organisations need so badly.

 

You will learn to work in the context of a targeted fundraising strategy to maximise the effect of tailored funding applications. We will look at grant giving trusts and foundations, sponsorship, individual giving and donations. To assist your future fundraising experiences the day includes lots of practical exercises and opportunities to learn from other delegates.

 

Cost: £75 for participants from the 33 London Boroughs; £90 for participants from outside of London. One place for a volunteer member of staff at £37.50 (London only)

 

To download a booking form click here or contact Georgina Siddall on 020 7549 1712.

 

Please return completed forms to:

 

Bookings

MLA London

53-36 Great Sutton Street

London

EC1V 0DG

 

Tel. 020 7549 1712

Fax. 020 7490 5225

e-mail: [log in to unmask]

 

 

Paddy McNulty

Workforce Development Co-ordinator

Direct line: 020 7549 1711

Main line: 020 7549 1700

Fax: 020 7490 5225

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www.mlalondon.org.uk

 

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London EC1V 0DG

 

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