Emily Sockett Email & Phone Number

I'm Emily, a volunteer manager with a passion for people, animals, The Arts and the Third Sector. I'm all about working in collaboration with volunteers to create impactful experience programmes across charities and not-for-profit organisations, furthering their impact and progress towards their strategic objectives. With experience in both small and large charities, as well as over 4 years as a Secondary English Teacher, I work hard to bring quality and diversity in programme delivery, strategic planning and implementation, and ultimately make positive changes in the communities third sector organisations look to serve.My current role is as the National Volunteer Manager for St John Ambulance Cymru. Having just started in the role, I’m excited to get stuck into the strategic planning of volunteer experience at the charity, borne out of insightful and engaging conversations with the volunteer cohort and developed as a support and complement to the charity’s goal of saving lives across Wales. If you’re a volunteer for St John Ambulance Cymru, please do drop me a message to say ‘hello’!When I'm not managing volunteers, I am, in fact, a proud volunteer myself! Giving my free time to support the amazing Cardiff-based not-for-profit Heads Above The Waves as their Education Co-ordinator. It's a pleasure to be able to use my professional skills and experience to help young people manage their mental health, and I am honoured to have met so many inspiring individuals through my voluntary work with them.Previous to my work at St John Ambulance Cymru, I was employed as the Training and Assessment Manager at The Association of Dogs and Cats Homes. During my time in this role, I increased recruitment of new volunteers at the charity by over 70%, improved internal communications to develop a robust, inspiring and supportive volunteering culture at the charity, and implemented training programmes to enable all staff and volunteers to help rescues across the UK and Ireland uphold the highest animal welfare standards.My first role working for a charity was with the National Trust, running educational programmes with a team of dedicated volunteers at one of their inspiring 'special places', as well as managing their second-hand bookshop as an income stream and fundraising function for the property. In addition to this, I have also worked as Head of Education at a small not-for-profit, where I led a team of passionate and inspiring facilitators designing and delivering a national educational programme on gambling-related-harm throughout Wales and England.

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  National Volunteer Manager

  St John Ambulance Cymru

  Jun 2024 - Present - Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom