Volunteers
Young Volunteers - vCricket programme
The vCricket programme is here to introduce young people into cricket, offering a broad range of volunteering opportunities, providing: enjoyable, enhancing and sustainable programmes for both volunteers and clubs. The vCricket programme will change the dynamic of the workforce to support the game.
The vCricket awards have been set up to give recognition to young volunteers for their involvement. The landmarks of the awards are for completion of 25, 50 and 100 hours of volunteering which are logged in an hour book. If you are aged 16-25 and want to volunteer in cricket or if your club has young volunteers helping out already, please contact the board office for more information or to obtain an ‘hour book'.
Volunteer Coordinator
The main purpose of the Volunteer Coordinator is to ensure, that at the heart of the club, there is a group of people who are in the right place at the right time with the right skills to enable the club to achieve its goals.
Key tasks could include: identifying gaps in clubs workforce, creating role descriptions, recruiting volunteers and welcoming them to the club, completing OSCAs nominations and recognising the work of volunteers, managing volunteers' expectations and helping maintain enthusiasm.
This role is vital to ensuring that your clubs volunteer resources are fully utilised. Workshops are available through the LRCB to support and train your clubs volunteer coordinator. Alternatively similar workshops are offered through VAL free of charge to voluntary groups.
Be-Involved
The ‘Be Involved' section of the ECB web-page contains lots of useful information to help clubs find, manage, recognise and reward their volunteers including Be Involved - club recruitment posters, sample role descriptions and volunteering case studies. All of this can be accessed using the following link; http://www.ecb.co.uk/development/be-involved-do-a-favour/.
Voluntary Action LeicesterShire (VAL)
You can advertise opportunities within your club via VAL. You can contact VAL via their web-site at www.valonline.org.uk or via their helpline on 0116 2575050. The helpline are able to signpost you to your local volunteer centre who you can advertise any opportunities in your club for you. Opportunities will be advertised through these local centres and on www.do-it.org.uk. The sample role descriptions found on the ECB web-page can help you when completing the volunteer opportunity form for VAL.
VAL offers FREE training courses to participants from Voluntary and Community Sector (CVS) Groups. A range of 'Core' sessions - delivered by VAL staff - such as Starting a New Group and Working with Volunteers can also be requested FREE OF CHARGE for groups of ten or more people at a time and venue to suit you. For more information regarding upcoming courses please visit their web-page at http://www.valonline.org.uk/training-groups.
VAL has produced a Best Practice Guide for working with volunteers which is attached here. The guidelines are intended to assist you with the effective management of volunteers.
