England Athletics- Host an Open Day or Officials Taster session to encourage new volunteers
Do you feel like you don’t have enough volunteers? Always the same people helping you out?
If so, hosting a Volunteer Open Day or Officials Taster Session at your club could be a great way of encouraging more people to volunteer as well as raising awareness of how people in the community can get involved in volunteering opportunities within your club.
2017 is a great year to encourage people to become involved with athletics and running in the UK. With London hosting both the IAAF World Championships and the World ParaAthletics Championships, there is going to be a great buzz across the country.
Between July and September, England Athletics, funded by Spirit of 2012 are encouraging clubs to host a volunteer open day or officials taster session as a way of inspiring more people to become volunteers within your clubs. The open days and taster sessions will allow people to come and find out about the opportunities you have available in the club, and to ‘give it a try!’
You don’t need to arrange a dedicated Volunteering Open Day and don’t be daunted about planning one. You could hold one at a competition, meet or club open day. Whatever works best for you; the important thing is to let people know there are opportunities for them to volunteer at your club.
To help you with the planning, promotion and delivery of these events, there will be various resources available to download and order, which include posters & banners to help advertise your event, templates with ideas of what to include within an officials taster session or ‘give it a try’ day, T-shirts for your volunteers and prizes for your attendees, as well as useful information on how to keep volunteers engaged after the event. We have included some of the resources below which you can download and start using now! Keep your eyes peeled over the next week for when hard copies of the resources will be available to order as well as the T-shirts, banners and prizes!
Click here to go to our online resource library, or use www.englandathletics.org/opendayresources
Once you have all the details of your event, make sure you upload it onto the Team Personal Best website – this will help make more people aware of the opportunity and how they can get involved.
For any further information and questions around the Volunteer Open Day or Officials Taster Sessions and the resources available please email volunteering@englandathletics.org.