1. Engaging with Volunteers
Colleen Blair

2. Our Club Landscape
Giving an overview of how our non swimming membership is year on year growing in the last 6 years and how that relates to our swimming membership, supporting the point that the volunteers are the blood line of the sport

3. Volunteer Objectives Reward & Recognise Retention Recruitment
Linking with national research on key areas for volunteering and linking in with our volunteer structure

4. On your tables In your table groups
Volunteers
How do you recruit
Who are your volunteers
How do you develop volunteers
How do you support volunteers
How do you recognise volunteers
In your table groups
As we go through the workshop please fill in the headings on the tables using
RED Pen for current practices
GREEN Pen for future practices
Outlining the group activities that will run throughout the workshop, red pen before the slides on that subject and green pen after the slide and discussions

5. Supporting our Volunteers
Who are our volunteers
Governance & Planning Workshops
Club Culture
Succession Planning
Life membership
Club Awards/Recognition
Overview slides introducing topics in following slides

6. Who are our Volunteers Parents Grandparents Swimmers
Other organisations
Ex Swimmers
Interested in the Sport
Ex Members
Before looking for volunteering we need to look at who are volunteers are
As work life balances change the landscape of volunteering is changing, people now volunteer for different reasons than in the past
How do we engage with new volunteers and how do we retain them

7. Recognising Volunteers
National Volunteer Week
Link with Local Awards
Club Hub on Website
Scottish Swimming Awards Evening
Life membership
Club Awards/Recognition
It is important to recognise our volunteers for what they do, there are many ways to do this

8. Governance & Planning Workshops
RSDM Support Available
Sample Policies & Procedures
Well Organised Clubs
Chairing a meeting
Social Media
Equality
Looking at past & future of club
Swot analysis of club
Where does the club want to be
Creating a club development plan
These are workshops we offer to the clubs which can help with how the clubs are governed and how they operate the clubs utilising peoples skills

9. Club Culture Creating a volunteer Culture
Introduction evenings for new members
Linking in with local groups
General Meetings – correct people
AGM – how to get people there

10. Succession Planning Club role email addresses
Role Descriptors & Time Scales
Shadowing
Sub Committees
Spreading the work load

11. Looking to the future