Recruiting volunteers

Strategies for recruiting volunteers

Creative strategies for recruiting volunteers — a quick reference guide:

• Produce volunteer information kits, including job descriptions for volunteer roles.
• Check past and present membership lists for potential volunteers.
• Conduct a skills audit of your organisation to identify potential volunteers.
• Provide new members with information on ways they can get involved with your organisation as a volunteer (include in membership information).
• Write a letter of invitation to members inviting them to volunteer.
• Organise recruitment drives using current volunteers to promote the club and its activities.
• Use the local community newspaper – classified ads, letters to the editor, feature articles.
• Produce posters, pamphlets or flyers that promote the club and the roles that volunteers are required for – distribute where potential volunteers may visit.
• Organise community notices on the radio.
• Talk to pre-retirement training sessions in commercial sectors.
• Promote your organisation and its activities as part of Year 11 and 12 physical education studies at the local high school.
• Offer young members the opportunity to take on the role of apprentice volunteers. Use existing and experienced volunteers as mentors.
• Promote your organisation and volunteer roles at local retirement villages and organisations.
• Advertise for volunteers on your organisation’s website.
• Contact Volunteering WA and utilise their volunteer referral service.
• Offer volunteers the opportunity to “job share” their volunteer role with a friend or partner.
  

Source: Recognising Volunteers — Active Australia Volunteer Management Program; Australian Sports Commission.