1. What can Sports Volunteering learn from the wider voluntary sector?
IV TeamKinetic Volunteer Conference in association with Manchester Metropolitan University
What can Sports Volunteering learn from the wider voluntary sector?

2. What can Sports Volunteering learn from the wider volunteering sector?
Wednesday 12th September 2018
Manchester Metropolitan University
Fiona Liddell and Rajma Begum Wales Council for Voluntary Action

3. Starter for 10
How do volunteering infrastructure organisations support you?
How could they help you more? OR
What does/could your organisation offer to sports volunteering?

4. Third Sector Support Wales offerss
Youth volunteering support
Information and guidance
Face to face brokerage for volunteering
Support with policy/strategy development
Enquiries helpline service
Volunteering-wales.net

5. Third Sector Support Wales offerss
National and local volunteer awards
Local/national volunteering networks
Annual resource event Gofod 3
Local/national newsletters
Volunteering grants

6. Third Sector Support Wales offerss
Projects and Partnerships
BME Sport Cymru
Volunteering Spirit Wales

9. Barriers Many issues accessing volunteering opportunities
Which direction is the barrier?

10. Achievements
Participants- health and wellbeing , confidence, social gain, pathway for development, 3000 participants engaged in sport
Volunteers – confidence, skills, development, training and employment opps, recognition- 160 recruited, trained and deployed
Community – more awareness, more active, inspiring wider circle, spreading the word, more involvement
Community organisations – strengthening governance, new areas of delivery, funding support, sustaining activities, building/ strengthening relations with SW and NGBs
NGB and Sporting partners – better engagement with BME communities, better understanding of cultures and barriers, improved image, diversity of players improving for some NGBs

11. Salman Ali – 18 year old. Volunteering for 2 years, numerous hours in sports and youth leadership. Roles in school, youth clubs, community and at events. Role model for the young people in his community , supported though level 1 and 2 in sports leaders to develop his confidence and skills .

12. Lessons Learnt
Sensitive to the cultural/religious/ economic needs of volunteers and their families
Diverse workforce and boards – act as role models
Utilising gatekeepers and key community workers to outreach and promote volunteering opportunities
Quality of volunteering
Support and incentives for volunteers from BME communities

13. Volunteering Spirit Wales -aims
Professionalise standards in event volunteering
Build networks of support to
Widen access to event volunteering

14. Volunteering Spirit Wales -objectives
Test the application of principles of good practice in volunteer management in the context of events
Identify and disseminate transferable learning
Develop relevant methodologies and tools
Embed good practice in event volunteering through the work of the partner organisations

15. Volunteering Spirit Wales -the plan
Delivery of six separate pilot projects across Wales involving distinct interventions
Baseline Survey
Pre-event and post-event surveys of volunteers in each of the six partner events
Regular meetings to foster collaborative working between the partners, stakeholders and WCVA
Independent evaluator

16. Volunteering Spirit Wales -outputs
Six case studies
Event volunteering certificate and scorecard
Event volunteering online toolkit
Independent Evaluation report
Bilingual volunteer management software

17. Thank You! You can contact us: Fiona Liddell
Volunteering Development Manager WCVA
Rajma Begum
SEC Project Manager, WCVA