Kerry Volunteer Centre is passionate about strengthening the capacity and resilience of Volunteer Involving Organisations and Volunteers throughout Kerry through the provision of training, bespoke consultancy and mentoring services. Since its establishment in 2003, Kerry Volunteer Centre has been developing and delivering training workshops, one to one mentoring sessions and bespoke virtual and in person consultancy services to Volunteers and Volunteering Involving Organisations (VIOs) throughout Kerry, their staff, Trustees and management committees. Training is delivered by online and in person throughout Kerry by the Kerry Volunteer Centre staff and externally engaged experts.
Kerry Volunteer Centre’s one to one mentoring service is available to the staff of Volunteer Involving Organisations on all aspects on Volunteer Management and Leadership, this support is completely free to registered VIOs and cost €60 per hour to non-registered VIOs. When circumstances require Kerry Volunteer Centre to charge for training workshops, the costs is significantly and deliberately subsidised, furthermore registered VIOs benefit from an enhanced 35% discount on all training workshops that have an accompanying fee and request for fee waiver from VIOs are granted whenever possible. As demand requires modular based Volunteer Leadership training is delivered annually focusing on all aspects of best practice in involving and managing volunteers a minimum of 15 attendees from VIOs are required for the training to proceed.
Kerry Volunteer Centre collaborates extensively with national regulatory agencies and subject matter experts to ensure that Kerry’s VIOs and Volunteers have access to local in person opportunities to develop their awareness, understanding and knowledge of best practice, legislative requirements impacting their operations and good governance mechanisms . Since 2003 the Volunteer Centre have collaborated with Charities Regulator, Data Protection Commissioner, Lobbying Regulator , HSE Suicide Prevention Team, TUSLA Child Safeguarding Information Officers, Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice, Volunteer Ireland and Carmichael.
Training workshop and events provided by Kerry Volunteer Centre are designed to strengthen and empower the capacity, knowledge base and resilience of VIOs and Volunteers in Kerry. The schedule of training workshops delivered in response to the needs and challenges of VIO and Volunteers across Kerry, since 2003 include:
- Volunteer Recruitment and Retention
- Fundamentals of Volunteer Leadership
- Volunteer Leadership Training
- Child Safeguarding
- How to Write An Annual Report
- Charities Governance Code
- Fearless Governance Training
- Active Citizenship and Voter Education
- Covid- 19 Ready and Able
- Garda Vetting
- safeTALK (Suicide Alertness for Everyone)
- ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)
- The Lobbying Act
- Good Governance Training
- Preventing Burnout
- Building Healthy Boundaries
- Safeguarding Adults at Risk.
- Facilitation Skills
- The Volunteer Charter
To find out more about how our training service can benefit your volunteering experience and or your Volunteer Involving Organisation, to avail of bespoke training service, mentoring or consultancy service and/or to register your training needs contact by email Geraldine on geraldine@volunteerkerry.ie
