Getting the Most from Your Membership
Getting the Most from Your Membership
Have you ever wondered if you could be getting more value from your membership of The Wheel?
Join our membership team for a guided tour of the best The Wheel has to offer. Whether it’s ensuring the right information goes to the right people, sharing your exciting events with the widest audience or signposting you to cool content that will support your work, you’ve come to the right place.
By the session end, you’ll have increased awareness of member services, gained useful tips for managing your relationship with The Wheel, and hopefully have freed up your time to focus on your important work.
Specifically, we will explore:
- How to use your ‘My Account page’ on Wheel.ie
- How to post on the community notice board and jobs board
- The value of joining our member networks
- Registering for training and events
- Learning more about key member services
- How our sample organisational policies can support your work
- Overview of the workplace mediation programme available to members
On a day-to-day basis, membership of The Wheel offers:
- Training & events
- Networkin opportunities
- Job postings & notices
- Updates on key issues impacting our sector
- Cost management
- Organisational policies
- Reduced subscription to additional services, including Fundingpoint.
This is a free event but registration is essential.
- You can book places for yourself and/or colleagues by clicking the button below.
- This event will take place on Zoom.
- Closed Captions can be enabled by participants.
- Please email matthew@wheel.ie if you have any special requirements.
Meet Your Presenters
Johnny Sheehan is The Wheel’s Member Engagement Manager. He works to ensure all our members are supported to work more effectively at a local, regional and national level. Johnny supports the public policy team to represent our members’, and the wider sector’s, shared interests. He has more than 25 years’ experience working in the development, youth work and environmental sectors and have served as a trustee on a number of charity boards. Johnny has a Law Society certificate in Charity Law, Trusteeship and Governance.
Maria Casey is the Membership and Accounts Officer at The Wheel. She joined The Wheel in August 2021 and helps members with their application to join our membership community from start to finish. Maria assists with the accounts and helps all members of The Wheel on their membership administration, queries and needs. Maria's previous experience involved working in the charity and voluntary sector in arts and culture, working on festivals and events. Her qualifications include an MA in Arts Policy, BA in Human Resource Management and BA in Fine Art.
Jon McBride is the Governance and Compliance Manager with The Wheel. His role is to guide The Wheel's compliance journey, for state agencies and authorities, for funders and for our members. Jon is also responsible for gathering and maintaining our metrics and key performance indicators, ensuring that The Wheel are always working towards demonstrating the impact we have for our members, the nonprofit sector, and for society.
Jon's background is in administration management and HR support with over 20 years' global experience. Prior to beginning in The Wheel, working with large fundraising service providers to the community and voluntary sector, collaborating with many different charitable organisations in Ireland and the UK.