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Volunteers play a vital role in the cultural and creative sector. The sector draws heavily on the expertise, insights, knowledge, and time of a wide range of people who add huge value. This includes, for example, meeting and greeting, guiding and interpretation, attracting new audiences, curating artifacts, and maintaining buildings and grounds.

Volunteers can benefit in many ways from their engagement. They can learn skills, develop networks, and find routes into employment that might not otherwise have been apparent to them.

This Free workshop is for organisations, trustees, entrepreneurs and businesses that are active in the cultural and creative sector and want to explore how to develop purposeful volunteering opportunities.

To deliver the workshop, Create North is pleased to welcome Melanie Shee of Creative -& Cultural Skills, which works across -UK to create fair and inclusive opportunities within the sector.

In this 90-minute session, Melanie will ensure you have a -good understanding of the conditions that describe genuine volunteering (as opposed to unpaid work) and how this can provide an important step into paid employment.

The session, open to Q&As throughout, will work through:

• An exploration of why people volunteer, and why employers offer volunteering opportunities
• How you can use your volunteering opportunities to aid diversity and inclusion
• Volunteering best practice, including induction, supervision and training, and reimbursement of legitimate expenses
• Volunteer Agreements
• What a Voluntary Worker is and the rules that apply to this type of volunteer

Links to The Best Practice Training Guide accompanying this-training will be provided, and Melanie will explain how to use them appropriately. She will also highlight 1:1 support available free of charge to cultural sector employers in England.

The workshop and subsequent support is available thanks to funding provided by Arts Council England.

There are still myths and inaccuracies regarding apprenticeships, especially in cultural sectors where they are still relatively new. They may appear complex and daunting at first, but can be exceptionally rewarding and beneficial, for both employer and apprentice.

This is an information session for employers, organisations and entrepreneurs and freelancers who want to understand more about this route and how apprenticeships work.

To deliver the workshop, Create North is pleased to welcome Melanie Shee of Creative and Cultural Skills, which works across Britain to create fair and inclusive opportunities within the sector.

In this 90-minute session, Melanie will give you a solid foundation to understanding apprenticeships, with practical steps to introducing them to your organisation.

The session, open to Q&As throughout, will work through:

• The basics of what an apprenticeship is, who they are for, and how they are delivered
• Why apprenticeships are important
• Understanding and working with Apprenticeship Standards
• How the Apprenticeship Levy works
• Working with the Apprenticeship Service (England only)

Melanie will also provide information about advice available and will highlight 1:1 support available free of charge to cultural sector employers in England.

The workshop and subsequent support is available thanks to funding provided by Arts Council England.