🎥 Watch the Day 2 #VSVR2025 plenary:
"Staying true while gaining traction: Civil society’s contribution to system change from the edge and the centre"
With Vita Terry, Navinder Kaur, Ken Kanu, Dawn Plimmer and John Everson.
📺 Recording here: echo360.org.uk/media/6082e3...
Missed the opening plenary at #VSVR2025?
Watch: "Working together: Implications of an ecosystemic approach for the third sector" with Prof Stephen Osborne, Arvinda Gohil (Better Way Network), Fiona Longhurst (RVS), Mike Adamson (St Mungo’s).
Recording now available: echo360.org.uk/media/88207f...
🗓️ One week to go until our next New Researchers Online Session!
📚 Join us on Fri 3 Oct, 12:00–13:00 BST for a conversation with VSR editors Lindsay Findlay-King & Oto Potluka on publishing in VSR.
We’ll also reflect on #VSVR2025 and leave time for networking.
🔗 Sign up: tinyurl.com/newresonline
🧑💻 Calling all voluntary sector new researchers!
Join us on Fri 3 Oct, 12:00–13:00 BST for our next online session.
Lindsay Findlay-King & Oto Potluka, editors of Voluntary Sector Review, will talk all things publishing 📚
We’ll also reflect on #VSVR2025.
🔗 Sign up: tinyurl.com/newresonline
That’s a wrap on #VSVR2025!
We’re grateful to our conference partners: the Centre for Charity Effectiveness at @bayesbschool.bsky.social, @ncvo.bsky.social and @volactionislington.bsky.social for making it all possible.
We’re closing out #VSVR2025 with our final session, a practical workshop on building cross-sector research collaborations to create change together, led by Ellen Bennett, James Rees, and Carol Jacklin-Jarvis.
A fitting end to two days of learning and collaboration here at @bayesbschool.bsky.social
🎙️ A busy afternoon of parallel sessions is underway at #VSVR2025!
From devolution and place-based work to digital inclusion, advocacy, and third sector-university partnerships.
Great to see such thoughtful research and practice being shared across rooms here at @bayesbschool.bsky.social
🌅 Good morning from Day 2 of #VSVR2025 at @bayesbschool.bsky.social !
We’re kicking off with a powerful plenary:
“Staying true while gaining traction: Civil society’s contribution to system change from the edge and the centre”
🎤 Chaired by Vita Terry (VSSN).
Let’s dive in!
That’s (almost) a wrap on Day 1 of #VSVR2025 at @bayesbschool.bsky.social!
It’s been a full day of keynotes, panels, and discussions across themes of collaboration, resilience and research impact.
Still to come: the Best Paper Prizes 🏆!
@ncvo.bsky.social @volactionislington.bsky.social
A packed afternoon at #VSVR2025 here at @bayesbschool.bsky.social
From funding and infrastructure to AI, data, collaboration, and participatory approaches, today’s sessions sparked discussion and insight across the sector.
Plenty to take away as we round off Day 1 and more to come tomorrow!
Amy presenting slides in lecture hall
Timely to hear from Amy Sanders @wiserd-research.bsky.social about how community development approaches are being applied to polarisation locally and nationally through More in Common at #VSVR2025 @vssn1.bsky.social
We are heading into the first parallel sessions here at #VSVR2025 @bayesbschool.bsky.social ☕📚
Themes include equity and inclusion, volunteer experience, charity leadership, and research-practice collaboration. Plenty of insight ahead!
@ncvo.bsky.social @volactionislington.bsky.social
Kicking off #VSVR2025 with opening plenary:
📣 Prof Stephen Osborne set the scene with reflections on systems thinking in public services and civil society.
A response panel following:
🔹 Arvinda Gohil (Better Way Network)
🔹 Fiona Longhurst (Royal Voluntary Service)
🔹 Mike Adamson (St Mungo’s)
Thanks so much, Liz! We're delighted to have you back at #VSVR2025 and pleased you're enjoying the focus on creating change together.
We’re underway at #VSVR2025!
Angela Ellis Paine (Bayes CCE) and Vita Terry (VSSN Co-Chair) opened the conference this morning with a warm welcome and reflections on the theme Creating Change Together.
Great to see the room filling with energy for the two days ahead!
📍 @bayesbschool.bsky.social
☕ Not long now until the main conference begins!
Day 1 of #VSVR2025 kicks off today at @bayesbschool.bsky.social. We’ll be exploring the theme Creating Change Together with a packed programme of keynotes, parallel sessions, and panel discussions.
Watch this space for updates throughout the day!
That’s a wrap on New Researchers Day #VSVR2025
A full day of discussions from enhancing engagement at conferences to sharing research across volunteering, democracy, and community change.
Thanks to all who joined us today!
@bayesbschool.bsky.social @ncvo.bsky.social @volactionislington.bsky.social
In Session 3 of New Researchers Day at #VSVR2025, we explored how change happens in practice:
🤝 Harriet Plows on advice orgs & care networks
🔍 Victoria Nunn @viva-victoria.bsky.social on researching the sector from within
🌐 Peter Horner on local infrastructure’s convening role
During Session 2 at #VSVR2025 New Researchers Day, we heard:
🗳️ Clara Kansiime on accountability & NGO impact in Uganda
🤝 Clare Harewood on trust in participatory research
🩺 Sophie Cole @sophiecole.bsky.social on health inequalities & voluntary sector support
@bayesbschool.bsky.social
Before lunch at #VSVR2025 New Researchers Day, we heard:
🗳️ Sue Ansarie @sueansarie.bsky.social on Big Local volunteers
🔍 Thérèse Gaqua on associations & social action
🤝 Linda Cole @lindarcole.bsky.social on co-producing research with disabled volunteers
@bayesbschool.bsky.social
Next up at #VSVR2025 New Researchers Day:
📣 Workshop on Enhancing communication and engagement at academic conferences: asking good questions!
Facilitated by Rob Macmillan and Amy Sanders, helping us get the most out of presenting, participating and connecting.
@bayesbschool.bsky.social
We also had a warm welcome this morning from Amy Sanders, Co-Chair of VSSN, as we kicked off New Researchers Day at #VSVR2025.
Great to start the day with encouragement and connection across our research community!
@bayesbschool.bsky.social @ncvo.bsky.social @volactionislington.bsky.social
🎓 New Researchers Day at #VSVR2025 is starting now at @bayesbschool.bsky.social!
Helen Abnett @helenabnett.bsky.social, Chelle Coulton & Pat Danahey Janin are opening the day with a welcome and intro. A brilliant line-up of early career research ahead – let’s get started!
Today's the day! On my way from Newcastle to London for #VSVR2025!
This afternoon I'll be presenting on my triple positionally in #VCSE #mentalhealth research (academic, practitioner, expert by experience)
Can't wait to meet everyone, thank you for this opportunity @vssn1.bsky.social
📣 1 day to go to #VSVR2025!
We’ll start with the New Researchers Day, followed by Day 1 with a welcome by Angela Ellis Paine and Vita Terry, and a keynote by Prof Stephen Osborne.
Programme: tinyurl.com/VSVR2025programme
@bayesbschool.bsky.social @ncvo.bsky.social @volactionislington.bsky.social
We are glad you’ll be joining us, Victoria! Wishing you a positive experience at #VSVR2025, and hope it feels like a welcoming return. See you in London!
📣 Just 2 days to go until #VSVR2025 kicks off!
We’re looking forward to inspiring sessions, panels and catching up with colleagues at @bayesbschool.bsky.social.
Get ready: www.vssn.org.uk/2025-volunta...
Explore the programme: tinyurl.com/VSVR2025programme
📅 Just 3 days to go until #VSVR2025!
Cut the wait with our latest article: reflections from Perspectives on Scotland’s Third Sector Impact, now on VSSN News:
🔗 www.vssn.org.uk/2025/08/29/p...
📢 Just 4 days to go until #VSVR2025!
The full conference programme is now available — explore the sessions, speakers, and themes across all three days.
📖 Take a look and start planning your schedule:
🔗 tinyurl.com/VSVR2025prog...
Looking forward to seeing many of you at @bayesbschool.bsky.social
📅 Just 5 days to go until #VSVR2025
We’re starting with the New Researchers Day, packed with presentations on:
👐 Volunteering, participation & social action
🗳️ Democracy & grassroots voluntary action
🔄 Creating change together
Join us at @bayesbschool.bsky.social
🔗 www.vssn.org.uk/2025-volunta...
