DELIVERING THE COACHING
AND VOLUNTEERING
STRATEGY
HAVE YOU GOT THE
RIGHT TOOLS?
31st March 2011, Cardiff
Karen Arnold
Workshop Outcomes
• Review the National Coaching and Volunteering strategy
2010- 2016
• Recognise the key factors highlighted by the research
• Identify the issues and challenges within the four
implementation areas of the strategy (recruit, train, deploy,
retain)
• Discuss and develop ideas and solutions to drive the strategy
forwards
• Identify the skills needed to work effectively within volunteer
development
• Develop and action plan to actively develop and support
volunteers
Volunteer Roles
True/ False
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Horse Cooler
Chaperone
Bum Spotter
Pool Sheet collector
Screen Team Member
Windows Team Member
Volunteer Roles
True!
• Horse Cooler – True, provide fast response horse cooling units around
cross country course
• Chaperone – True, Escorts athletes from th field of play and controls/
manages entry and exit
• Bum Spotter – True, Used during PARA, ensures that the players
buttocks remain seated
• Pool Sheet Collector – True, Collecting the pool sheets from each
piste at the end of each fencing round
• Screen Team Member – True, provide privacy for injured horses
• Windows Team Member – True, technical specialist for
Microsoft Windows
Strategy Aspirations
• Double the number of coaches
and volunteers
• Coaches and volunteers
qualified to a level appropriate
for their role
• Every newly deployed coach is
deployed
• Coaches and volunteers to be
valued and have access to CPD
People usually ‘fall into’
coaching/volunteering
• Recommendation: Sport
Wales’ activity to strengthen
the coaching and
volunteering base should be
locally-focused, supporting
clubs and centres to recruit
and support more volunteers
and coaches.
More volunteers and
coaches…….
• So What???
• Why???
Uniting a Proud Sporting
Nation
• Every child hooked on sport
for life
• A nation of champions
• Everyones a winner
Volunteers – The Value
Vol role
Time
Hours/month
Monthly value
Junior coach
12 hours/week (3
sessions)
48
£480
Social sec
2 hours/week
8
£80
Secretary
2 hours/day
65
£650
Chair
1 hour/day
28
£280
Match ref
6 hours/weekend
24
£240
Junior org
6 hours/week
24
£240
Man Cttee
1 meeting/month
x10
20
£200
217 x12 =
2604 per
year
£2,170 x12 =
£26,040 per
year
Total
Volunteers – The value
Volunteers don’t get
paid,
not because they are
worthless,
but because they are
priceless.
Source: Sports Volunteering in Wales research project.
Base: all adults aged 15 and above in Wales
Sports volunteering in Wales
Qualitative research: four routes into volunteering
Students
Active parents
 Looking for experience and development
opportunities that come with ‘volunteering’
(usually coaching).
 The only type that proactively seeks out
opportunities to volunteer/coach.
 A volunteer base or future workforce?
 A parent whose child is involved in an
activity, and is already on the sidelines.
 Gets involved because the club/class
expresses a need.
Sport lovers
Skilled volunteers
 Someone with a passion for their particular
sport and has an existing involvement in a
club/class.
 They get involved as they become older, can
no longer participate/compete or have reached
a certain level of expertise.
 Someone with skills that the club needs (e.g.
administration, accounting, driving).
 Usually hear about the club’s need through
friends or family and respond to that need.
Uniting a Proud Sporting
Nation
People usually ‘fall into’ volunteering
•Most don’t proactively seek opportunities, even
when they are interested in volunteering
•Students are the only proactive “type”
•Roped into’ supporting activities that
they already had some involvement in
•Opportunities arise within clubs/classes and existing
social networks
•People are most likely to respond to a specific need
expressed to them directly in their local community
Building local capacity
• Recommendation: Sport Wales’ approach to
working with clubs and centres should build
on the organic model, making it easier for
people to ‘fall into’ volunteering. This should
include support to:
– Identify their needs for coaches and volunteers
– Develop a clear strategy for strengthening the
volunteer base
– Define and describe (and break up) roles, skills
needed and time commitments more clearly
– Build confidence in asking for help –materials to
support this?
– Provide appropriate support for coaches and
volunteers, including developing local networks
where wanted
– Build links with schools and other partner
organisations
Implementation areas
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Recruit … for what?
Train … for what?
Deploy … for what?
Retain … for what?
Strategy Aspirations
& Local Implementation
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Double the number of coaches and volunteers
Coaches and volunteers qualified to a level appropriate
for their role
Every newly deployed coach is deployed
Coaches and volunteers to be valued and have access to
CPD
Issues and Challenges
………………
Strategy Aspirations
& Local Implementation
•
•
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Double the number of coaches and volunteers
Coaches and volunteers qualified to a level
appropriate for their role
Every newly deployed coach is deployed
Coaches and volunteers to be valued and have
access to CPD
Issues and Challenges
Solutions
Ideas
Resources
Voluteer
Yes/ No?
Would you:
• Use £75 worth of fuel
• Drive for 12 hours (over
4 days)
• Provide 18 hours
volunteer time (over 4
days)
If we provide:
• Training
• A T Shirt
• A Lanyard
• A Pin Badge
• A Thank You
DELIVERING THE COACHING AND
VOLUNTEERING STRATEGY
JUST ASK!!
And say
THANK YOU!!