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View a video filmed at this year's Step Into Sport Community Volunteering Conferences.

People working together in sport

Volunteers are the lifeblood of sport. Without them, sport across the country would not be able to move forward. Coventry Solihull & Warwickshire Sport are aware of the difficulties experienced at all levels of sport, whether it be club, county or national, in the recruitment and retention of volunteers.

The CSW Sport Support Team and partners, are working with organisations such as Sport England, the local volunteer centres, Community Service Volunteers (CSV), Millennium Volunteers and the National Governing Bodies (NGBs) to support links between the local volunteering infrastructure and the local sports environment and to encourage even more people to engage in sports volunteering.

To help progress with this aim, Coventry Solihull & Warwickshire Sports Partnership will continually invest in volunteer management within sport, both to ensure high and consistent standards of good practice in the sector, and to work towards attracting an even more diverse range of young volunteers.

Recent research carried out by Sport England demonstrates exactly how important sport volunteers are and what a significant contribution the voluntary sports sector makes to volunteering activity as a whole:

There are 5,821,400 sports volunteers, that's 14% of the adult population
The sporting sector makes the single biggest contribution to total volunteering in England, with 26% of all volunteers citing "sport" as their main area of interest
They contribute one billion hours each year to sport, equivalent to
720,000 additional full time paid workers
The value of the time contributed by sports volunteers in England is estimated at over £14 billion

Why should you volunteer?

By giving your time you can develop in lots of different ways - gain experience in a variety of different roles, network with key organisations, improve your life skills, make yourself more employable and lots more!

Visit www.do-it.org.uk to find volunteering opportunities in your area.

Make Britain Proud - Volunteer to Win! - Visit www.volunteer2012.com to find out more about volunteering at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

A volunteer helping a young athlete out

Resources for Managing Volunteers – Good Practice Bank:

The Good Practice Bank brings together articles, information sheets, case studies, links and other helpful guidance on a range of volunteering issues.

The Bank will grow and evolve as more information is added to it. Importantly, it will allow users to share their documents with other volunteering organisations.

It is also possible to take advantage of the Managing Volunteer good practice bank.

Creating High Quality Placements for Young People

The Creating High Quality Placements for Young people, provides information on the Step into Sport program, as well as providing information on how to create a high quality placement for a volunteer.

For more information on Creating High Quality Placements for Young People then review the resource

SportsNav Volunteering in Sport

The SportsNav Volunteering in Sport booklet, aims to provide information for people organising volunteers in sport. The booklet will:

Introduce to SportNav and what it can offer
Show you the benefits of sport volunteering
Help you to work in partnership to improve sport volunteering
Help you to connect volunteers with opportunities in sport

To find out more about SportsNav Volunteering in Sport then view the booklet

Volunteer Programmes & Schemes:

For more information visit our volunteer programmes and schemes page.

Useful Websites & Contacts:

c/o University of Warwick
Westwood Campus
Coventry, CV4 7AL

T 024 7657 4200
F 024 7657 4203
E info@cswsport.org.uk


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