Making the Most of Employee Volunteering

Cranfield Management Development Centre, Bedford, UK

October 4th 2005

This one time conference will provide expert tuition on all aspects of employee volunteering from planning, people development and team building to marketing, internal communications, and monitoring & evaluation.

Delegates will get to hear the distinct ways in which some of the world’s top businesses are making employee volunteering work for them, as well as the chance to network with a host of like minded organisations and sign up for various carefully selected employee volunteering programmes.

Other highlights include a ‘Question Time’ panel debate, chaired by BBC World Affairs Correspondent Mike Wooldridge and interactive seminars specially designed by four of the leading organisations in employee volunteering.

Speakers include:

Dwight Tierney, Viacom, Senior Executive VP, Europe, Africa and the Middle East Michael Kelly, KPMG, Director of CSR

Mark Wakefield, IBM, Corporate Community Relations Director

Dame Elisabeth Hoodless, CSV, Executive Director

Yasmin Waljee, Lovells, Pro Bono Manager

Kate Hughes, Business in the Community, Regeneration & Partnerships Manager

Nicola Clarke, Cadbury Trebor Bassett, Community Affairs Manager

Question Time Panellists:

Gareth Thomas, DFID, Under Secretary of State

Kate James, Standard Chartered Bank, Group Head of Public Affairs

Mark Goldring, VSO, Chief Executive

John Morrison, former CSR Director of The Body Shop

Seminars by:

The Corporate Citizenship Company

The Smart Company

Volunteering England

VSO

For more information go to www.internationalservice.org.uk and click on the conference link. Alternatively, contact Tom Pitchon direct on 01904 66 33 62 or email [email protected].