Time & Talents organises social media workshop for local charities

Time & Talents is delighted to be organising a social media workshop in collaboration with Saffron Interactive, ReputationInc and Whizz-Kidz, a charity for disabled young people.

The workshop, taking place on Thursday 29 July 2010, is designed to help charity and community organisations overcome the challenges they face with social media and to enhance their services using the platforms that have transformed the way we share, communicate and learn.

Mark Hutcheon from ReputationInc will be chairing the workshop, whilst Kim George, from Saffron Interactive, will be co-facilitating the workshop along with Amiera Sawas of ReputationInc. They will be presenting case studies of organisations successfully using social media and running surgery-style sessions. In these sessions charity representatives will have the opportunity to share their real life social media challenges with media professionals and gain tips on raising their profile, promoting their services, spreading ideas and gaining volunteers via social media.

This workshop is in line with Time & Talents for Westminster’s primary objective: helping local employer organisations share their skills and expertise with local charity and community orgnanisations. If you are from a charity or community organisation wanting to find out more about social media or if you’re a social media enthusiast or marketing executive who can offer guidance and advice, we want to hear from you! For a place at the workshop, contact sholi@volunteer.co.uk.

About Time & Talents for Westminster

Time & Talents is a not for profit partnership working with private, public and voluntary sector organisations. We broker employer supported volunteering projects that serve local needs, with a particular focus on skills and sustainability.

In addition to the individual consultancy and support we provide, we run a joint programme of events to enable our partners to network and collaborate together.

Time & Talents is part of Volunteer Centre Westminster, a registered charity with a mission to ‘transform lives through volunteering’. We are working in partnership with Volunteering England on a new Time & Talents Network, with the first pilots in Exeter, Darlington and Oxford.