National Volunteer Week is taking place this week (3-9 June 2024) and we think it is a really great time to celebrate your volunteers and an ideal time to try and recruit some new volunteers using the national campaign.
National Volunteer Week starts on the first Monday in June every year and is a chance to recognise, celebrate and thank the UK’s incredible volunteers for all they contribute to our local communities, the voluntary sector, and society as a whole.
GBWR will be using the celebration to showcase volunteers across all areas of our sport throughout the week with a call to action to get involved. We would love for clubs to reshare and engage so we can get the posts to a wider audience.
How can you get involved? Just like the I CAN PLAY. campaign, clubs can use – I CAN VOLUNTEER or I CAN COACH to engage with their audiences.
This is an opportunity to showcase the volunteers you have in the club (coach, committee, mechanic etc), the benefits to being a volunteer, commitment needed to be a volunteer in your club and how new volunteers can sign up.
Club are encouraged to create short interviews with volunteers, snap pictures of them in action, why not let them take over the clubs Instagram/Facebook story for the day?
Throughout the week clubs are asked to use the following hashtags to widen the reach of their posts – #nationalvolunteerweek #volunteerinsport #volunteering #sportvolunteer #disabilitysportvolunteer #volunteering
You can also tag local community volunteer groups and GBWR so we can engage!
