Volunteer Recruitment

This workshop covers the nuts and bolts of creating and recruiting to a volunteer role, but also focuses on the underlying nature of volunteering, and how to use this understanding to better attract volunteers. Topics covered include

• Why define specific roles for volunteers
• Writing a role description
• Advertising and promoting your roles
• Tackling the barriers to volunteering
• The application process
• Interviewing volunteers and making decisions

This will be an interactive session, with opportunities for participants to discuss areas of concern.

Learning outcomes:

Attendees will:

• Gain an understanding of the motivations behind volunteering and how to tap into this for recruitment
• Know the key barriers to volunteering, and how to remove or reduce them
• Understand the need to avoid the ‘workplace model’ of recruitment, and make the process as   straightforward as possible