Volunteer and Event Management
Volunteers' motivations, volunteer coordinators and planning a management programme.
WHY DO PEOPLE VOLUNTEER?
A volunteer is someone who donates their time to the club without expectation of a payment. Volunteers come from all age groups, educational backgrounds, income levels, genders and types of employment.
They become volunteers for a variety of reasons. Basic motivations that are often cited include:
- helping others
- having an interest in the work or activity
- wanting to learn and gain experience
- having a lot of free time
- being devoted to the cause
- knowing someone who is involved.
- Why do People Volunteer?
- Why do you need a Volunteer Coordinator?
- Why do you need a Volunteer Plan?
Please see the below Volunteer Management document for more information.
Volunteers are key to the sucess of any sporting organisation whether it be a Centre, Satellites, Clubs or Schools. Without our volunteers, sport would not be accessible to everyone, there would be a lot more health issues mentally and physically, and the fun factor that Netball brings to the game and to our people would be sorely missed.
LOOK AFTER YOUR VOLUNTEERS - THEY ARE GOLD TO YOU AND NEED TO BE TREASURED
Planning, promoting and evaluating events.
Events are a fantastic way to promote your club in the community. They are a great opportunity to get people involved and have fun at the same time. Most of the work for an event is in the planning.
PLANNING YOUR EVENTS
Planning is about deciding what kind of event your club wants and making it happen. This planning can be carried out in four stages: planning, preparation, presentation and evaluation. The following action points will help:
- have a meeting to decide what kind of event your club wants to have and how it might work
- know the purpose of the exercise - is it to raise money, increase membership or reward volunteers?
- prepare a timeline - what needs to happen before, during and after the event?
- identify resources - what will you need (people, equipment, facilities)?
- work out costs - do you have a budget for your event?
- know your goals - what are the aims and the benefits for your club?
- how will you measure your success - it helps to know what is to be achieved, who it is for, who can help, what is it called and how much will it cost?
- Planning your event
- Prepare for your event
- Event checklist
- Managing Volunteers
- Marketing
- Event presentation and evaluation
Please see the below Event Management and Event Checklist documents for more information.
