VOLUNTEERING
These pages are designed
to give you up-to-date information about volunteering, whether
you're a person who would like to volunteer or a sports
organisation who would like help in recruiting, retaining and
rewarding volunteers.
- Want to volunteer?
- Information for clubs
- Awards for volunteering
- *NEW* Duke of Edinburgh's Award Guidance Pack - Sports Leadership/ Coaching *NEW*
- Any other questions?
Regardless of whether you are new
to volunteering in sport, or someone who spent years coaching or
administrating your local team, it's good to understand what
support there is for you!
There are lots of organisations geared
to placing new volunteers in organisations like sports clubs,
whilst club/organisations should have procedures and people in
place to make sure you enjoy your volunteering. In
addition, there are lots of award schemes and training
opportunities which you can access as a volunteer!
The vast majority of sports clubs rely
on volunteers to run from day to day. The volunteers currently in
clubs need support to make sure that they continue to help and
that they enjoy giving their time. New volunteers, on the other
hand, are desirable as they can bring fresh enthusiasm,
replace people who stop volunteering and allow the club to be
flexible in what it can do - with more people to help, more can be
done!
To help your club, there are
organisations geared to finding new volunteers and to give advice
on volunteering issues, ways of working to maximise the retention,
recruitment and retention of volunteers, and workshops to
train volunteers in non-coaching roles.
Sport in this country simply cannot
exist without the support of people who spend time, unpaid, helping
with the running of activities, training and
competitions across the country. To recognise the importance
of their volunteering and to celebrate their achievements, awards
are run locally, regionally and nationally. Sports volunteers could
win awards wholly based on volunteering or awards as part of a
larger sports ceremony. So if you know of anyone whose
contribution to sport needs noticing, nominate them!
A new guidance pack has just been
released on sports leadership and coaching for Duke of Edinburgh's
Award Unit Leaders!
Sports Leadership/Coaching is one of the
more popular routes for participants wishing to complete their
Service Sections. We hope that this guidance pack will help Unit
Leaders to support young people as sports leaders, coaches and
officials in the community as they endeavour to achieve their
Bronze, Silver and Gold awards.
If you have any queries about sports
volunteering which are not answered on this site, please feel free
to contact:
John Woodroffe, Sports
Leadership & Volunteering Development Officer
E-mail: john.woodroffe@surreycc.gov.uk
Tel: 01483 518943
Last updated: 27 May
2008
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