2009 AINA CONFERENCE
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2009 AINA CONFERENCE Volunteering and the Inland Waterways |
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Andy Wilkinson, Waterways Development Manager, Environment Agency Andy Wilkinson is the Anglian Waterways Development Manager for the Environment Agency based in Peterborough. Andy has worked for the Environment Agency for just over 12 months and is responsible for securing the necessary funding to maintain, improve and develop Anglian Region's navigable rivers. Previously Andy worked for British Waterways where he spent five and a half years delivering funding and leisure development opportunities on the canals within their Wales & Border Counties region.
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Andy Maginnis, Countryside Manager, Worcestershire County Council
Andy Maginnis is Countryside Manager for Worcestershire County Council's Countryside Service. His teams manage the public rights of way network, country parks, Local Nature Reserves and the Malvern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. They offer advice and support to local communities wishing to improve their local greenspaces and manage nine residential Gypsy sites. Andy's teams work with over 300 volunteers who support their work. Andy is the Local Government Association representative on the Countryside Recreation Network and also sits on the Country Parks Network Steering Group and Environmental Volunteering Group. He is a past Chairman of the Countryside Management Association and current Chairman of the Worcestershire Wardens Partnership which supports over 500 volunteers from 9 different organisations from the public and voluntary sectors. When not at work, Andy is a parish councillor and spends most weekends coaching junior football and rugby. |
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Alan Murray, Head of Volunteering, RSPB
The RSPB is Nature’s Voice and at the RSPB, I’m the voice of volunteering. I’ve spent all my working life, already longer than I care to remember, working to enthuse, inspire and enable people to put their time and talent to best use for nature and the environment. This passion came about from actually being a full time volunteer myself with the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers way back in 1989. Today I’m very fortunate to be Head of Volunteering Development for the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) supporting the 13,500 regular volunteers whose time and talents we try incredible hard to put to the best use for nature. I’m responsible for developing and implementing our Volunteering Strategy and Volunteer Policy and in short, I’m expected to be the expert on all matters volunteering for the RSPB. As well as that small task, I also deliver training for managers of volunteers. After all, we all know in reality volunteers join organisations and leave managers, or more importantly, poor managers. I’m still volunteering myself as a Director of the Association of Volunteer Managers (http://www.volunteermanagers.org.uk) and also as a shepherd! If you want to know more about the later or possibly more likely, anything about the RSPB’s volunteering work I’d be happy to chat. |
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Lucie Unsworth, Youth Involvement Manager, The Waterways Trust
Lucie Unsworth has held the position of The Waterways Trust’s Youth Involvement Manager since July 2009 and is Project Manager for Waterways Action Squad, the new youth volunteering project in partnership with British Waterways. She has previously worked as Youth Volunteer Development Manager for the vinvolved team in Salford, leading on the development of a Youth Volunteering Strategy for the City. In early 2009 Lucie completed the Level 3 Endorsed Award in Excellence in Volunteer Management. Prior to her work for vinvolved, Lucie worked as Community and Education Assistant at The Lowry Art Galleries and Theatres and as a freelance Project Coordinator and Artist. Lucie enjoys the theatre and mountain biking and continues to be an active volunteer. |
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Rose Casey-Challies, National Community Boats Association
Rose is the Interim Chief Executive for the National Community Boats Association (NCBA), the national body for organisations that use the waterways as a means for supporting and bringing together communities, and engaging people with a disability or who otherwise are excluded or disadvantaged in some way. Key areas of operation are setting quality standards, providing waterway and community specific training, enabling effective sharing of learning, and providing a collective voice for its members. Rose is an active advocate for social impact and knowledge management, previously working with the Big Lottery Fund, Charities Aid Foundation and the European Foundation Centre as Director of Partners in Impact. Previous to this she was responsible for the development of funding policy at the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales. Rose is also a member of the Football Foundation’s Community Panel. Rose’s aspiration is a place where the waterways are at the heart of communities across the UK; where there is an understanding and respect of the waterways as a teacher and where people can teach, learn and enjoy themselves.
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Mike Palmer, Chairman, Waterway Recovery Group
Mike is Technology Organiser for BBC Birmingham, responsible for the provision of Broadcast Engineering for the BBCs regional headquarters at the Mailbox. (Includes local news, network radio, drama and post production). He lives with wife Jude beside the Grand Union Canal between Hatton and Lapworth. He is a Volunteering Advisor to Inland Waterways Advisory Council and an Inland Waterways Association Trustee for 15 years (retired Sept 09) and is also Chairman of the Waterway Recovery Group. |
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Mark Crosby, Head of Volunteering, The National Trust
Mark is currently on secondment to the role of Head of Volunteering. He has been with the Trusts central volunteering team for 6 years - advising property and regional staff on volunteer management, strategy and leading on various central projects. Prior to this he spent almost 5 years with VSO supporting the recruitment and training of volunteers and 2 years as a volunteer teacher in Malawi. |
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Keynote address |
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Huw Irranca Davies MP |
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Thousands of people in the UK volunteer every day and in doing so make a real difference to their community. Around 11.6 million people volunteer at least once a month with an estimated benefit to the UK economy of £27.5 billion. Within the context of the inland waterways we do not yet know the total numbers of volunteers or their estimated economic value although AINA research is about start to determine these figures.
However, we do know that the inland waterways are indebted to volunteers for ensuring that many of the canals and navigable rivers which are now taken for granted and enjoyed by communities across the country, have been restored from dereliction since the 1950s and 60s. Indeed, the ‘third sector’ continues to be involved in around 80 waterway restoration schemes nationally. We also know that the scope for waterways volunteering can extend far beyond restoration projects and navigation authorities are now looking seriously at how waterways volunteering can become more accessible to local communities, and how best to engage them for mutual benefit.
This conference is an important step in our journey to better understand existing and potential volunteering across the waterways. It has three principal objectives:
to raise awareness of the value of volunteering and the associated opportunities to the nation’s inland waterways
As such, this conference will appeal to all waterway stakeholders including those working for navigation authorities, those within local authorities, officials within government departments, and waterway user groups; in addition to those engaged more widely across all elements of the third sector including organisations which promote and facilitate volunteering, and volunteering managers themselves.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
| 10.25 | Welcome and opening remarks | Stuart Taylor, AINA Chairman |
| 10.30 | Keynote address | Huw Irranca-Davies MP, Defra Minister with responsibility for waterways |
| 10.50 | Policy panel: Challenges and opportunities for volunteering | Sophie Chapman, Policy Manager , Participation Team, Cabinet Office, Office of the Third Sector, Justin Davis-Smith, Chief Executive, Volunteering England, Tom Levitt MP, Chair All Party Parliamentary Group on Communities and the Voluntary Sector |
| 11.20 | Questions and discussion | |
| 11.45 | Refreshment break | |
| 12.00 | Making connections: visitors, community and volunteering at the National Trust | Mark Crosby, Head of Volunteering, The National Trust |
| 12.15 | Volunteers, birds….and how we stop the feathers flying! | Alan Murray, Head of Volunteering, RSPB |
| 12.30 | The Worcestershire Wardens Project: a multi-agency approach | Andy Maginnis, Countryside Manager, Worcestershire County Council |
| 12.45 | Questions and discussion | |
| 13.15 | Lunch | |
| 14.15 | The Waterways Revolution - the under 25s take the helm | Lucie Unsworth, Youth Involvement Manager, The Waterways Trust |
| 14.35 | Building communities through the waterways | Rose Casey-Challies, National Community Boats Association |
| 14.55 | An environment for volunteering | Andy Wilkinson, Waterways Development Manager, Environment Agency Anglian Region |
| 15.15 | Real gains for everyone: selling the benefits of waterway volunteering | Mike Palmer, Chairman, Waterway Recovery Group |
| 15.35 | Questions and discussion | |
| 16.00 | Summing up | Stuart Taylor, AINA Chairman |
| 16.05 | Close |
For more information you can contact AINA on
Tel: 0113 2433125
Email: info@aina.org.uk
3.9.09
