How inclusive are our volunteering practices, and where can we do better? This interactive session will explore good practices in inclusive volunteering, drawing on the inclusion quality area of Investing in Volunteers (IiV). Top tips will be shared – both quick wins and longer-term approaches – to ensure volunteering is accessible to all. Join the session to reflect, share, and take action toward making volunteering truly inclusive.

The solutions to the growing mental health crisis lie outside of ‘health’. Our Mental Health is not determined by our genes but by the circumstances and conditions in which we are born, live, work, and play. This interactive session explores what factors promote good mental health, and how to embed prevention in communities.

Transport underpins our lives. Get it right and it opens up educational and employment opportunities, enabling us to maintain contact with family and friends, supporting us to participate in community groups and activities, go shopping or attend hospital appointments. With so many people and parts of Wales currently excluded from the mainstream transport network, this session will consider how the new Bus Bill provides an opportunity to think beyond a basic ‘copy and paste’ version of what we already have to design a transport system that works for all of us.

This will be a structured conversation, led by Barbara Chidgey, founder and Chair of the charity Daring to Dream. Daring to Dream supports the emotional (not mental) health of the 1.2 million adults in Wales living with illness. Research confirms that talking about our feelings assists a more rapid recovery from acute crises, supports living better with chronic illness, potentially reduces the risk of also developing a mental illness on top of the physical illness. A focus on emotional health is a game changer, says Barbara Chidgey (founder of Daring to Dream) for those of us living with illness, our families and carers and for NHS Wales.