HR Priorities and Trends in 2025: What's changing in the workplace

While all organisations have similar HR needs and challenges, in a VCSE group or organisation, finding solutions to these issues can prove to be difficult. The most common obstacle for small organisations is not having a dedicated and experienced HR employee. In most cases, HR responsibilities fall on the charity CEO or other senior members of the organisation.

Go Volunteer Glos and Gloucestershire VCS Alliance are jointly hosting this interactive HR ‘Masterclass’ designed specifically to help small VCSE groups and organisations to strengthen their HR policies and practices.

The workshop will be led by HR specialists from Connected Kerb, a leading business working with Gloucestershire County Council to install Electric Vehicle charging infrastructure across the county.

Stephanie Robinson and Helen Saunders, People Partner specialists at Connected-Kerb will be exploring the role of HR and the positive impact from a business perspective and how this translates to VCSE groups and organisations.

During the session, you will get to hear about the latest HR trends employers whether large or small need to consider, and address topics such as:

1. Legal Compliance and essential policies

2. Adopting a people-centred HR strategy and improving employee experience

3. Adapting to a distributed workforce

Stephanie and Helen will also open the floor for a Question & Answer session, allowing you to learn from others in the sector.

Please note this is an information and learning masterclass and not an advisory session, so please ensure you bring general questions only about HR matters and not identifiable or specific about your organisation or employees.

Booking information

• This course is fully funded for VCSE sector groups & organisations delivering services in Gloucestershire.
• To enable as many groups & organisations to access this course, we limit bookings to two per organisation. We only accept bookings from individuals attending the course and we are unable to accept multiple bookings in one name.
• If you would like to book more than two spaces, please email [email protected] and we will aim to accomodate individual needs where possible.
• Our courses are often oversubscribed and we therefore have a waiting list system in place for each course. If this course is fully booked, you can add yourself to the waiting list and we will let you know as soon as a place becomes available.

If you book a place and cannot attend for any reason, please email [email protected] asap so that we can allocate your place to someone else.

Parking information

This session is at the Inclusion Gloucestershire office. If you are driving to the office there is parking at King’s Walk Car Park, Hare Lane Car Park or Asda Car Park. You have to pay for this. The nearest blue badge parking is at Gloucester train station – this is free but you must register using the machine or the APCOA app.

Get in touch

If you have any enquiries about this course, please email [email protected] and a member of our team will get back to you.

We look forward to welcoming you on 22 January.

The Gloucestershire VCS Alliance team

Host or Publisher Matt Lennard