Time For Impact Podcast

Our 20th Episode is a sensational conversation with a real trailblazer in youth volunteering. Stephen Greene was at the visionary forefront of the National Citizen Service in the UK and is the founder and CEO of the groundbreaking RockCorps. Stephen tells us the story and vision behind both RockCorps and NCS. He shares some of his secrets of building the youth citizenship muscle. He tells us the e...

This week's episode features Mark Lever , former CEO of three leading charities: Helpforce, Royal Voluntary Service, and the National Autistic Society . Mark brings a wealth of experience and a deep understanding of the volunteer landscape. Our conversation delves into the crucial topic of demonstrating and maximising the impact of volunteering—a core focus of Time for Impact. We also discuss...

We hope you enjoy our discussion on volunteering in Northern Ireland, volunteering Infrastructure and the international volunteerism profession as much as we did. We discussed the role of community sport and faith in volunteering, the role of infrastructure in boosting the profession, and the centrality of volunteerism in citizenship, democracy and the civic fabric. We discussed the changes in vol...

We were delighted to be joined on the Time For Impact Podcast by Michael Phillips, Head of Volunteering at the great homelessness charity Crisis. Crisis have some really exciting and truly ambitious plans to work in collaboration with the communities in which homelessness exists, with business, government and other charities to end homelessness in the UK. They recognise that they cannot do it alon...

In this episode of the Time for Impact podcast Chris and Matt discuss the newly released ‘Digital in Volunteering Toolkit’ with Gethyn Williams. The new toolkit is a useful tool for new and experienced volunteering professionals alike and completely free. So we think it is precisely the kind of innovation that fellow professionals may wish to hear more about.  In our usual style of course, we delv...

On Friday 15th November 2024, Chris Wade, Helen Timbrell and Rob Jackson held a unique event kindly hosted by the National Trust at their HQ in Swindon. The event, started to address the long evolving trend of volunteering functions being housed in combined People functions of HR and Volunteering professionals. We felt that the sector discussion on this is long-overdue. HR professionals are increa...

Both Matt and I are big fans of Parkrun ; not just the running but the volunteering too. We've long been impressed at their simple yet efficient, well organised and inclusive volunteering happens with a relatively small staffing body. To get the inside track on how Parkrun grew from a small local running event to a global phenomena this is essential listening. You will learn about how voluntee...

For those exploring corporate or employee volunteering this is a must-listen episode. Kishma is responsible for employee volunteering across Wellcome, one of the richest charities in the world, and a significant employer in the UK. Wellcome's ethos and culture means that they see employee volunteering as a key ingredient of staff wellbeing. Tune in to hear a perspective from an employer, about...

Janet Thorne CEO of Reach Volunteering joined Chris and Matt to discuss how Reach Volunteering has had enormous success recently in recruiting volunteers where others have struggled. We discuss their citizenship focussed approach to recruitment and involvement. We really encourage you to read Reach and Janet's writing on these subjects. Links provided below. #ChangeTheStory campaign  https://r...

Matt Cobble and Chris Wade speak with Maddy Mills from the Family Volunteering Club. https://www.familyvolunteeringclub.co.uk/about We discuss; Why there are so few family volunteering opportunities / the missed opportunity. How to make volunteering more child and family friendly The importance of building a habit of volunteering Volunteering building link with local communities. How to make volun...

We hope you enjoyed part one of our student volunteering special with David Coles, from the LSE? Well, here is part 2. Enjoy! As always do get in touch with us via our website to suggest future guests and tell us what you thought of the episode. www. TimeForImpact.co.uk Like any creative endeavour, bringing the podcast to life involves real costs in production, editing, planning, and execution. As...

Part one of a conversation with David Coles from the LSE. ideal for those involving students in their volunteer activity Please follow to receive future episodes and be sure to catch part two soon. Like any creative endeavour, bringing the podcast to life involves real costs in production, editing, planning, and execution. As a small charity consultancy, our primary income comes from providing pai...

The second part of our insightful conversation with Ashley Staines and Doug Ayres. We discuss how digital solutions can be leading or enabling innovation on volunteering thinking. We explore the role of digital in helping us develop marketing and customer insight led solutions to the challenges volunteering professionals face. We examine the myths and stereotypes about generational divides in adop...

Part one of our conversation with two great thinkers in the charity and volunteering tech space with customers across the world. In part one we explore why they are focusing their digital entrepreneurship on volunteering, the drivers and barriers to volunteering organisations investing in the digital tools that can enhance our practice, the importance of data and customer insights in volunteering,...

Matt and Chris speak with Rachel Gegeshidze, CEO of Tempo about her organisation's community engagement building successes in the UK, through their time credits programme. You can read more about Tempo's work here https://wearetempo.org/ Please do check out the Time for Impact Webpage here to see how we can help your volunteering activities thrive. www. TimeForImpact.co.uk We are always in...

In this episode Matt and Chris meet with Amy Stow from Shift. Ms to discuss their innovative charity for people living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). We talk about the special co-productive approach the charity takes as a charity by MSers for MSers. We talk about how the charities roots in digital and creative industries shapes their work differently to some other charities, and above all we discus...

In this episode Chris and Matt discuss their hopes and expectations from politicians seeking our votes in the forthcoming elections in the UK - with a volunteering focus of course. We share our thoughts on what we'd like to see in manifestos and create a shortlist of our own. A few links of interest for you. The NCVO election guides for charities and the Voluntary Sector Manifesto https://www....

We explore the experiences of Julia Manser and Gemma Richards from the West Glamorgan Volunteering Support Project on their experiences of getting local partners to collaborate over the planning of volunteering. In particular we explore their efforts to build more fliud passporting between agencies to enable volunteers to support multiple agencies. You can read more about their work here https://w...

The second part of our conversation with Matt Hick, Head of Volunteering at the Science Museum Group and Chair of Heritage Volunteering Group. Like any creative endeavour, bringing the podcast to life involves real costs in production, editing, planning, and execution. As a small charity consultancy, our primary income comes from providing paid advice and training, allowing us to freely share our...

In this part one of two episodes to kick off the Time For Impact Podcast we hear from Matthew Hick, Head of Volunteering of the Science Museum Group and Chair of the Heritage Volunteering Group. Do check out the Heritage Volunteering site and youtube channel https://heritagevolunteeringgroup.org.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv49rsHge9lQJZ3yAKja1A We also discuss ways to track success of i...