Volunteer Development Framework
The aim of the Volunteer Development Framework is to help your club or organisation review and strengthen its practices with regards to volunteering and in doing so create a sustainable volunteer culture for the future.
All volunteer led organisations have an ethos or set of principles which outline how the organisation values and recognises volunteers. Any ethos should live at the heart of your culture, in how you advertise yourself and how you live and breathe as an organisation.
Does your organisation have a volunteer ethos? How do you connect with your volunteers?
The Volunteer Development Framework is designed as an aid to discussions and the full document can be downloaded here.
Review
Think about all of the volunteers within your organisation. Stop, reflect and think about your current situation. What is needed for a successful future?
Becoming a volunteer-led organisation is about also making sure time is set aside to look after the volunteers doing those tasks. Essentially, making the volunteering itself as important to the club as the activity we all enjoy. When we do this we create a sustainable volunteering culture.
Recruit
Do you need to recruit more volunteers? Does your organisation struggle to engage your members in volunteering for activity, events etc?
Take a closer look at who and how you’re recruiting. What sort of methods are you using and are you going far enough to and the people you need?
Retain
Volunteers come and go, we understand the natural ebb and flow of people, but how can your organisation retain your volunteers?
How do you continually adapt your tasks & roles to fit the volunteers’ needs, time, and motivations over their journey with your organisation?
Reward
How do you say thank you, or celebrate your volunteers and the impact they have? How important is this within your club/organisation?
Are you doing enough?
The Volunteer Development Framework aims to help you create a volunteer ethos and gather the confidence you need to move forwards.
Please get in touch with Laura, Georgia or Liza in the Participation & Development Team to talk through any of the sections or to get examples of how other organisations have taken this forward. Details in the Contact Us below.
