1. Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers

2. Linda Gill The Plan #NoLifeHalfLived
Volunteer Recruitment and Support Coordinator
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
Voluntary roles – Leader, Leith Community Cinema & Leith Community Knitting Bee
The Plan
Why Volunteering matters
The external vista on Volunteering
Healthy Volunteer Recruitment
Retention Strategies Setting the parameters
#NoLifeHalfLived

3. The Workshop Today
To highlight the best practice approaches to building the best volunteer team possible for your organisation, how to ensure your approach encompasses diverse strategies that bring your volunteers into a welcoming organisation and create a level of loyalty that retains them.
Outcomes – You will leave the workshop with some new approaches and sources to finding new volunteers for your organisation.
CHSS Volunteer base and activities undertaken by our volunteers
A look at the importance of the make-up of your volunteer team, how it can blend best with paid staff, the perfect mix approach, selection and introduction to your organisation. Short Q&A at the end of this section
Volunteer case studies.
Retention strategies you can deploy to keep your team vibrant and functioning.
The workshop will conclude with a general Q&A.

4. Volunteering Matters to Individuals
It is all about impact
There is tons and tons of research out there – what do not need is more research, what we need is wider understanding that volunteering is great.
These 2 diagrams summarise why volunteering is important
We need a better understanding from everyone that volunteering brings huge benefits for the individual and communities.

5. Volunteering Matters to Communities
And even more impact
And for the communities of Scotland
These 2 diagrams summarise why volunteering is important

6. Volunteer Benefits to the Organisation
Significantly increase organisational capacity
Enable the introduction and development of innovation in services
Increase sustainability
Keep you in touch with the community and its needs
Good value for money
Significant source of fundraising
Good ambassadors for you

7. National Statistics
Volunteering participation of at least once a year stable over the last 5 years at 27%
For the first time, the highest volunteering participation is in the 16 – 24 age bracket at 32%
A ‘lack of time’ and the ‘need to fit in volunteering with other commitments’ remain the main reasons respectively, for both stopping and restarting volunteering

8. Changing motivations to Volunteering

9. Volunteer Profile Volunteers are more likely to be: Women
From higher socio-economic and income groups
From rural areas
From less deprived areas