Nov 22, 2022
Hastings Voluntary Action’s 2022 Annual General Meeting and Conference will take place on Friday 2 December 2022 at East Sussex College Hastings, Station Approach, Hastings, TN34 1BA.
We have closed the advance bookings for this event so that we can prepare for 120+ of you on Friday. You can still come along if you have not booked a place, and we will do our best to fit you in!
The programme for the day will be follows:
9.00am Registration opens; tea/coffee; view the marketplace
9.30am HVA's AGM: our achievements in 2021/22 and our future plans
10.15am Comfort break; tea/coffee; networking; view the marketplace
11.00am Increasing volunteering in Hastings; HVA's Volunteer Awards
12.00pm Lunch and networking; view the marketplace
1.00pm Workshop options A (see options below)
2.00pm Workshop options B (see options below)
3.00pm Close
Workshop options A - 1pm-1.50pm
A1: Volunteering Digital Platform - Find out about East Sussex's new pilot Volunteering Platform to connect volunteers and organisations together.
A2: Winter Services - Find out about the services available to help vulnerable people through this winter.
A3: Communication Basics - Explore the best ways to share key messages and how to develop your presence on social media and online.
Workshop options B - 2pm-2.50pm
B1: Volunteering Strategy: Can we make Hastings one of the best places to volunteer? - HVA collaborated on some research with the Institute for Volunteering Research and are building a strategy to make Hastings an even better place to volunteer. Whether it is promoting opportunities, celebrating volunteers, helping people gain experience and qualifications or reaching out to new generation of volunteers, there is much that can be done. This workshop is an opportunity to hear about the research, give your views, and help shape a new volunteering strategy for Hastings.
B2: Men’s Health and Wellbeing in Hastings: shaping the future -
Context:
• Life expectancy for men in Hastings and St Leonard’s is significantly lower than the national average.
• Many initiatives have been delivered across the borough with the intention of improving health outcomes.
• Individually, these have made a big difference to people who have had first-hand experience of them. However, this has not had an impact on the wider population.
• For change to happen things need to be done differently than in the past. A new approach is needed
Join us today to hear how men are at the front, and centre, of this project, leading the way and building on their wealth of life experience, knowledge, and strengths.
B3: Support for refugees - Find out about the work of HVA's Links project, which supports refugees and migrants in East Sussex.
To book your place for any part of the day, click here
