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Vicky's volunteer co-ordinator experience
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OK, Vicky. So thank you very much for agreeing to do this video.
Um, you're working at a G
Knots as a volunteer coordinator.
So it would just be great if you could share some of your
experiences about how you found the role and how you find volunteering.
OK, thank you.
So I've been, um, working in the volunteering team for about 6.5 years now,
um, I started off as an administrator.
So, um, I've been involved in the recruitment, um, for a long time.
So that means that I have, um, been involved since pre-covid and also, um,
post covid and through covid.
Um,
firstly, um, I suppose what I should say is,
prior to working in the volunteering team, I didn't really have any experience of,
um,
uh, volunteers or volunteering.
And, um, when I joined the charity, it was to work in the HR department.
So I got my experience there and then moved on to volunteering.
Um,
but what I found quite quickly was how much
I enjoyed being part of the volunteering set up.
And I think most importantly, I suppose, where I think it's sort of
the HR
transfers over into volunteering
is that it's really, really important to see that
to ensure that we have. We recruit the right volunteers for the charity.
And I think
I'm quite passionate about ensuring that the right people do join the charity.
And I suppose as time has gone on
and with my experience,
I'm able to see,
um,
from quite an early from quite an early on from point of
interest who who might go through to actually being an approved volunteer?
Um,
going back to what I was mentioning about pre-covid
to to to post covid things have hugely changed.
Um, when I first started, um, in within the team, we we used to be quite un
indicated with queries.
Um,
but that didn't necessarily mean that they
would go through to being approved volunteers.
It's just that maybe there was more of an
appetite for volunteering sort of back in 2018,
2017, 1819.
Um,
but then since, um, covid
hit, um, and there was a big influx of volunteers due to um,
people, um, going on furlough and what have you
and then like post post covid
and people's
priorities, I think, have changed, and we're now in a sort of an environment where,
um people,
As I said, their priorities have changed.
But we've now also come through to a cost of living crisis.
So
it means that people aren't maybe able to volunteer.
And I think across the sector, that's what we're finding that
we've almost
in a bit of a shortage of volunteers.
Um, so that's a bit That's probably one of the the challenges at the moment is that,
um we've got a charity where, um, we're volunteer led.
Um, but,
um,
when we don't have the the volunteer numbers that that we once did And, um,
it's really important to make sure,
um
that we we try and exhaust as many avenues, um,
to get those those volunteers on board.
Um, one of our biggest challenges as well is because we look after elderly people.
We have to make sure our recruitment process is a thorough
and I think as well in this
this climate, people would like to dip in and out of volunteering,
and we don't have that
that option as such.
And I suppose that's another thing that we need to think about in the future
is having those opportunities available where people
can dip in and out of volunteering.
Um, but where we're at the moment is that they're more regular commitments,
and not everybody again has the flexibility.
Um, they they might not be able to afford to do that.
Um,
so So, yeah, so that that's, um that's where we're at. Um
a As I mentioned, I'm,
uh since day one, I've always enjoyed it, like being part of volunteer,
and I continue to enjoy it.
See it through the through the years. And, um, I'm in, you know, um and also S. See how?
See what the future future holds.
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