Events

Volunteering has a wide range of benefits but for those looking to secure employment or develop their career, it can help you enhance your CV, gain work experience and learn new skills.

• Kirkwall Jobcentre
• Wednesday 3 June 2026
• 2:30pm to 3:30pm

This two hour session provides many benefits to anyone volunteering to host welcoming spaces for the public.

• Online
• Thursday 4 June 2026
• 10:00am to 12:00pm

Attendees are welcome to drop-in throughout the volunteers’ open day from 12.00pm - 2.00pm.

• Clan Wellbeing Centre, 30 Victoria Street, Kirkwall
• Friday 5 June 2026
• 12:00pm to 2:00pm

Restart is holding a Volunteer Open House as part of their Volunteers' Week 2026 celebrations on Friday 5 June.

• Restart Orkney
• Friday 5 June 2026
• 1:00pm to 4:00pm

Join The Peedie Retreat and The Orkney Distillery for an evening of entertainment.

• The Orkney Distillery
• Friday 5 June 2026
• 7:00pm to 11:00pm
• £40

Getting discharge right:

• Online
• Tuesday 9 June 2026
• 9:15am to 10:15am

How care aware are you? Join Public Services Delivery Scotland at this one-hour session to learn how to better identify and support unpaid carers as equal partners in care.

• Online
• Wednesday 10 June 2026
• 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Join Museums Galleries Scotland at this online Knowledge Exchange which looks at sustainable exhibitions.

• Online
• Thursday 11 June 2026
• 10:30am to 12:00pm

The session is focused on child protection awareness for members of the general workforce.

• Online
• Friday 12 June 2026
• 9:00am to 1:00pm
• Free

At this session find out how museum cafés have become attractions in themselves, as well as important revenue streams.

• Online
• Wednesday 17 June 2026
• 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Funding remains one of the biggest challenges facing voluntary organisations today.

• Online
• Thursday 18 June 2026
• 10:00am to 11:30am
• £85 (SCVO member rate £60)

THRE (Third Sector Human Rights and Equalities) have released a new free training course focused on human rights from the international level down to everyday practice.

• Online
• Tuesday 23 - Wednesday 24 June 2026
• 2:00pm to 4:00pm