The six year road to the Big Coaching Project

2006 onwards The Big Lottery Fund
North West Network (NWN) successfully gained three years funding from the Big Lottery Fund to deliver its coaching and volunteer management support services across the North West.

2005 – 2006 Tameside Coaching Project
NWN successfully obtained funding from Greater Manchester Learning and Skills Council (LSCi) Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities Fund (NLDCF) to deliver coaching and SAMi Volunteer Management to volunteer managers in Tameside. 

The project was run in partnership with Volunteer Centre Tameside and provided a pilot of how NWN can work side by side with local volunteering infrastructure to provide sustainable and effective support activities in local areas. To view the  Volunteer Centre Tameside’s website please click on the link.

2004 – 2005 CSV Media Young Volunteer Challenge
NWN were contracted by CSV Media North to support external volunteer placements as part of its Young Volunteer Challenge Project. The project allowed the Volunteer Management Team to hone their coaching skills and put SAM Volunteer Management into practice.

2004 SAM Volunteer Management
NWN were funded by Government Office for the North West to develop and produce SAM Volunteer Management with the help of a consultation group made up of North West Voluntary delivery and infrastructure organisations. To preview SAM Volunteer Management please click on the link.

Coaching
NWN identified coaching as a technique that would enhance their ability to support Volunteer Managers. NWN’s Volunteer Management Team successfully completed Certificates in Coaching at the Centre for Coaching, UK. To view the Centre for Coaching’s website please click on the link.

2003 Consultation
NWN identified volunteer management as an area in which organisations needed support in order to develop; by consulting with the membership, organisations supported by the MVi project and research undertaken by the public and voluntary sectors.

A Generic Volunteer Management Support Service
NWN completed their Millennium Volunteers Project and planned a project that built upon NWN’s experience of developing youth volunteering projects under MV and made its support available to all volunteer involving organisations in the North West.

2002 European Social Fund (ESFi) Capacity Buildingi Project
NWN acquired ESF funding to expand it's Millennium Volunteer Project to offer more development support to ‘Host Projects’. Dan Farley was recruited as part of the ESF Capacity Building Project.

2001 The beginning of the Volunteer Management Team
Carol Savage is recruited as Millennium Volunteer Project Coordinator. NWN develops a capacity building package for ‘Host Projects’ based around one to one support for project leaders.

2000 Millennium Volunteers Development Agent
NWN were contracted by the Department for Education and Skills to become a Development Agent for Millennium Volunteers (MV) a volunteering initiative for 16-24 year olds in the North West. NWN’s role, as a Development Agent, was to recruit and support projects that involve young people in volunteering in running their own MV project as ‘Host Projects’.