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Events

JVN offers a wide variety of seminars, workshops and other events for volunteers, volunteer managers, charity CEOs and trustees in order to promote good practice in volunteering, volunteer management, charity governance and other volunteering-related matters in the charity sector.

Cancellation Policy

JVN reserves the right to cancel, postpone or otherwise alter the content or date of an event without notice. In such circumstances JVN will return any payment received without penalty of a cancellation charge. In the event of cancellation by a delegate, cancellation fees will be due as follows:

Cancellations made 15 working days or more before the date of the training/seminar will receive a full refund.
Cancellations made 6-14 working days before the date of the training/seminar, will receive a refund of 50%.
Cancellations made 5 working days or less before the date of the training/seminar will not be entitled to any refund.
No refunds will be made in the case of no shows.
In exceptional circumstances a refund or a credit note may be offered at the discretion of JVN. In these circumstances, email caroline@jvn.org.uk giving full details of why you were unable to attend, enclosing any supporting documentation if possible.

Volunteers
Finding Your Ideal Volunteer Role
Mon 24 Aug
7:30pm-8:30pm
Online
If you are looking to volunteer and are not sure how much time you have to share or which skills you wish to utilise. This workshop can help answer these questions.
Book now
Volunteer managers
Volunteer Managers' Forum - Supporting Your Volunteers Wellbeing
Thu 17 Sep
10:00am-11:00am
Online
Join us for this one-hour online forum for volunteer managers, whether paid or volunteers themselves. This is a practical, discussion-led forum where you can bring questions, share experiences, and learn from peers who understand the pressures and rewards of the role.
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Volunteers
Finding Your Ideal Volunteer Role
Wed 23 Sep
10:30am-11:00am
Online
If you are looking to volunteer and are not sure how much time you have to share or which skills you wish to utilise. This workshop can help answer these questions.
Book now
Volunteers
Finding Your Ideal Volunteer Role
Thu 22 Oct
11:00am-11:30am
Online
If you are looking to volunteer and are not sure how much time you have to share or which skills you wish to utilise. This workshop can help answer these questions.
Book now
Volunteer managers
Volunteer Managers' Forum , with JDA
Wed 25 Nov
10:00am-11:00am
Online
Join us for this one-hour online forum for volunteer managers, whether paid or volunteers themselves. This session will be co-facilitated with the Jewish Deaf Association who will be sharing with us how we can support peers, volunteers and clients who are living with hearing challenges.
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Volunteers
Finding Your Ideal Volunteer Role
Thu 26 Nov
11:00am-11:30am
Online
If you are looking to volunteer and are not sure how much time you have to share or which skills you wish to utilise. This workshop can help answer these questions.
Book now
Volunteers
Finding Your Ideal Volunteer Role
Mon 14 Dec
10:30am-11:00am
Online
If you are looking to volunteer and are not sure how much time you have to share or which skills you wish to utilise. This workshop can help answer these questions.
Book now

JVN holds some events on an annual basis - click on the headings below to find out about them. More details about our plans for each event this year will be released over the coming months.

Volunteers' Week 2018

Volunteers’ Week is a national celebration of volunteering, held annually on the first week of June. Highlights of Volunteers’ Week in 2017 included the JVN Roadshow in Edgware and Borehamwood; a special seminar for more mature volunteers at JW3, featuring guest speaker Dame Esther Rantzen; the Jewish Community Trustees’ Conference, run in conjunction with Lead; and the Maccabi GB Community Fun Run, for which we provided many of the volunteers from our Ad Hoc Volunteering Squad who were crucial to the event’s success. This was of course rounded off by JVN receiving The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service.

Volunteers’ Week 2018, from 1^st-7^th June, will once again feature the JVN Roadshow alongside other events, which will be confirmed in the near future.

The JVN Volunteering Awards

The JVN Volunteering Awards have been held annually since 2014. The 2014-2016 events, sponsored by the Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation, presented several awards to some of the community’s most outstanding volunteers. These included The Volunteer of the Year Award; The Volunteer Team of the Year Award; The Young Adult Leadership in Volunteering Award; and the prestigious Lifetime Achievement in Volunteering Award. Also presented was a special Friend of the Community Award, for an individual outside of the Jewish community who has supported the community and its institutions.

The 2017 Awards were incorporated into our 10^th Anniversary Gala Dinner in September 2017. We also created the Joy & Stanley Cohen Volunteers’ Hall of Fame, recognising select previous Award winners. You can read their stories here.

The JVN Volunteering Awards 2018 will be held in the autumn and details of how to nominate volunteers and the event will be released in the near future. Please contact Mike Silverstone on mike@jvn.org.uk if you have any questions regarding nominating a volunteer.