your local volunteer centre

One stop shop for local volunteer support services

Have you ever thought about looking outside your club for volunteers? Perhaps you need someone to keep your website up to date, someone to take the minutes, help with the teas, someone to manage your volunteers or even a club chairman.

Well look no further than your local volunteer centre. Volunteer Centres can extend the range of people who volunteer in sport and may well be able to indentify someone with special skills who would not usually have found their way into sport.

Thousands of people walk through the door of their local volunteer centre looking to give something back to the community. Around 20% of these people state they would be interested in helping a sports organisation. Sadly, less than 5% of the volunteering opportunities registered with the Volunteer Centres are from sports clubs or organisations.

What does this mean to your club? That the volunteers you are looking for are already out there and you just haven't found them yet.

Volunteer Centres can help you will the following:

• Operating as brokers – putting potential volunteers in touch with opportunities and training, and linking organisations seeking volunteers with the appropriate people,
• Encourage local interest in volunteering and community activity through the promotion of volunteering at local events
• Delivering good practice training
• Providing information for volunteers and volunteer managers/co-ordinators

To find out more about your local volunteer centre and how to register an opportunity visit the Volunteering Herts website.

Alternatively download the 'Need more Volunteers' flier to register your interest today.