Tagged with 'annual conference'
Helpline Awards 2019 – tips for your entry
The Helpline Awards, now in their sixth year, are an opportunity to acknowledge and reflect on the amazing work that helplines, their staff and volunteers do in providing information, support and advice to improve people’s lives. If you’re considering submitting a nomination for one of this year’s three award categories… Read More
15th May 2019
Looking back on 2018's Annual Conference
If you missed the 2018 Annual Conference, you can watch this short video to get a real flavour of the event. It features interviews with Paula Ojok, our Chief Executive, Anne-Marie Sabaroche from Family Rights Group, Karen Millard from SAIL and Maureen Sneddon from Citizens Advice Scotland. The theme of the… Read More
31st Jan 2019
How you’ve helped shape this year’s Helplines Partnership Conference
It’s less than two weeks to go until this year’s Annual Conference and Awards. Over the summer, we heard from a lot of helplines through a series of events we hosted for our members and non-members. One of the questions we asked was ‘if you had a magic wand, what… Read More
6th Nov 2018
EHRC Advisor Support
This year, The Equality and Human Rights Commission are attending our Annual Conference and Awards. We talked to them about the help and support they can offer helplines who have queries about discrimination and human rights law. The Equality and Human Rights Commission provides a second-tier helpline so that those… Read More
31st Oct 2018
Helplines and Fundraising: the future is innovative?
Our fabulous fundraising panel at the Helplines Partnership Conference 2015 were bursting with good ideas and positivity. Charity fundraising can be a challenge. With the squeeze on public funds, and grant programmes heavily oversubscribed, it can be hard for helplines to find the essential funding which they need in order… Read More
Major event in the helpline calendar
Helplines Partnership recently welcomed over 100 delegates to our 2015 Annual Conference which brought together helplines throughout the UK and the Republic of Ireland. The event provided a unique opportunity to capture the ideas, innovation, and insights from a broad range of helplines supporting a diverse range of service users…. Read More
27th Nov 2015
Our first Helpline Awards were spectacular!
If you read my blog before the Helpline Awards ceremony on 7 November 2014, you know it was full of excitement and eager anticipation as the day approached. Through the awards, we wanted to celebrate and show everyone how valuable helplines really are. We had an excellent response and I… Read More
17th Dec 2014
Reflections on our conference
Helplines came together to celebrate the history of helplines and to look to the future. I was proud to be a part of Helplines Partnership as we delivered a very successful conference, looking back over the past 25 years and then forward towards the future of our sector. The past… Read More
15th Dec 2014
Helplines Are Here
This year Helplines Partnership celebrates 25 years of support to helplines and the wider communities they support across UK society at large. Helpline staff and volunteers are the last resort and sometimes the first and only resort for people in need. Occasionally, these needs are simple, a piece of information… Read More
23rd Sep 2014