Volunteer Coordinators New Resource!
A new resource is available for all Volunteer Coordinators within clubs, centres or committees. The resource is designed to provide support in your role including a number of templates which may be useful to your organisation. Focusing on recruitment, recognition and retaining your volunters, the handy pack offers advice as well as useful documents to your club, centres or committees.
The resource pack has been designed so that Volunteer Coordinators can dip in and out of the pack to support them in their role, as well as a CD with easy to use templates which are already designed and ready for you to edit and adopt for your club.
The role of the Volunteer Coordinator involves specific support for their fellow volunteers with the main purpose to offer guidance on training needs, support or recognition. The Canoe England Volunteer Development Officer offers direct support to Volunteer Coordinators with all known coordinators being provided with the resource pack. To find out more about this role click here and have a look at the Volunteer Coordinator Role Description.
To make sure you receive your resource pack and support from Canoe England email us to inform is of your Volunteer Coordinator.
Role Descriptions
Roles of a Volunteer
There are lots of roles which volunteers can take on and all vary in skills and the amount of time you need to commit to, and all play an important role within Paddlesport.
Below lists a number of roles which can a volunteer can take on at club, regional, or national level. Click on the individual roles to find out what is involved. Clubs can use these role descriptions to help recruit new volunteers and to help recognise what is involved in each role.
Club Volunteers:
Chairperson Volunteer Coordinator
Secretary Welfare Officer
Treasurer Media / Publicity Officer
Health & Safety Officer Fundraising Officer
Junior Coordinator Coaching Coordinator
Events/Meetings Organiser Social Secretary
Newsletter Editor Mentor
Coach Clubmark Officer
Parent Helpers First Aiders
County / Regional / Discipline Roles:
Committee members Disability Coordinator
RCO & LCO Secretary
Chairperson Treasurer
Regional Access Advisor Discipline Officers
County representatives Local Coastal Advisor / Local River Advisor
Events:
First Aiders Officials / Judges
Car Park attendants Refreshments
Volunteer Induction
It is important to ensure your club, centre or committee has a thorough recruitment procedure in place to protect everyone's interest - your volunteers and your members. An induction can be carried out with your volunteers to ensure they feel welcomed into the club, centre or committee.
A good induction should help a volunteer feel part of the organisation and begin to develop a sense of commitment to it. It is a good idea to ensure the volunteer is given all the information they will need and could include a volunteer policy, volunteer agreement, role description, equity policy, health and safety policy, child protection policy, codes of conduct, emergency procedures and any other relevant club information.
Click here for an example template. Clubs, centres and committees can use this as a guideline and edit the template to ensure it is relevant for their organisation.
Equality Policy Template for Clubs/Centres
Following the updated version of the BCU/Canoe England Equality Policy, clubs can now access a template to assist them in writing their own policy. The policy gives guidance on the maximum wording to use within your policy and can be edited to ensure it is relevant for each club, and sections which are deemed not relevant to that club can also be deleted. Click here for more details.