Events

Tautoko Workshop: Storytelling

Facilitator: Sharon Moreham
Venue: St Albans Community Centre, Colombo Street (on-site parking accessed via Caledonian Road)
Cost: Free event

Learn how to tell a compelling story about what your organisation does, and the difference it makes.

RSVP: Via email

International Volunteer Managers' Day Workshop: Best Practice Guidelines

Facilitator: Alison Marshall, Volunteering New Zealand (VNZ)
Venue: Spark Place, Tūranga, Christchurch
Cost: $25 pp

This interactive session will be packed with tricks and tips to help you effectively manage volunteers at your organisation, and is aimed at novices right through to experts in volunteer management. Specifically, we will explore what others are doing in the areas of: Recruiting and engaging volunteers; Welcoming and onboarding volunteers; Volunteer support, leadership, and management; Train and grow volunteers; Feedback and recognition; Celebrate volunteer impact; and Exiting Volunteers. We will be learning from everyone in the room, including you!

The workshop will be based on the Volunteering New Zealand's 'Best Practice Guidelines.' You can access these on the VNZ website (or ask the team at Volunteering Canterbury for a 'hard' copy!) Lunch is provided, please provide any dietary requirements upon registration.

RSVP: Online via Humanitix

Governance Bites: Keeping Board Members Engaged and the Role of the Chair

Facilitator: Garth Nowland-Foreman, from LEAD Centre for Not for Profit Governance and Leadership
Venue: Aldersgate Centre, 309 Durham Street North, Christchurch Central (Please enter the Aldersgate Centre from the rear door, via the car park. This can be accessed from Chester Street West. Spaces within the carpark are available to Governance Bites attendees from 5pm onwards.)
Cost: Free event

Chairs have one of the most demanding jobs in a non-profit. What is realistic and what are the essentials? Can we look again at sharing roles around the board table? One of the key roles of a chair is to facilitate the board as a group – especially in its core role as group decision-makers. And given participation is the purpose if you are going to bother calling a meeting, how can a chair best facilitate real participation that will energise and enthuse board members, and get the best possible decisions from a diverse group? We will look at some practical tools and frameworks to help make this happen in real world non-profit boards. Sessions will run from 5.30pm to 7.00pm. However, doors open and pizza bites are available from 5.00pm!

RSVP: Registrations essential, via email

International Volunteer Day 2025

International Volunteer Day (IVD) is an international event run by UN Volunteers and celebrated every year on 5 December. The purpose of IVD is to recognize and support the spirit of volunteerism to help create a better future. It champions the impact volunteers have in communities, nationally and globally.

Newcomers Volunteer Expo 2026

Facilitator: Volunteering Canterbury, in conjunction with Christchurch City Council, Welcoming Communities, and Multicultural Recreation and Community Centre
Venue: Multicultural Recreation and Community Centre, Hagley Avenue
Cost: Free event

Find your place. Grow your skills. Join the community. Come along to the Newcomers Volunteer Expo to explore volunteer opportunities that connect you with others and help you feel at home. Make friends, build your skills, and find your place through volunteering.