Once your account has been approved by Volunteering Kingston, you can create and add new volunteering opportunities. Just simply sign into your account and click on add opportunity.
Key Details
- Opportunity Name – Brief title – Include the name of the activity and role e.g. Fun Run Volunteer Marshall
- Opportunity Description – Be descriptive – Give as much information about the role as possible, remember you are also trying to entice people to volunteer so make it sound fun and interesting.
- Benefits & Perks – Something to say ‘thank you’ to the volunteers. Tea and coffee provided throughout, a lunch or opportunities for volunteer training.
- Skills Required – Skills that will help the volunteer get the best from this opportunity. If skills are needed offer to provide any additional or specialist training to volunteers before they begin– this could be one of the added benefits and perks
- Main Category – From the drop down menu what most describes the role.
- Activity Tags – Words you want associated to your opportunity e.g. if it was an admin role the tags could be: Admin, office, IT.
- Is the opportunity accessible?
- Opportunity part of a larger event – Do you have an event that requires many different roles and is this opportunity part of it? If yes, then choose yes from the drop down menu and you will be able to put all opportunities related to that event onto one page. If it is a one off opportunity, then choose no.
Travel Information – Some simple instructions about how the volunteer can get to your venue e.g. closest train/tube station, bus routes etc.
Expenses
Please outline what expenses you can provide.
Volunteers should not be out of pocket from volunteering. Volunteering Kingston recommend as best practice offering travel expenses and lunch for volunteer shifts over 5 hours. For shifts less than five hours, please provide volunteers with simple snacks. Volunteers should have access to drinking water and we recommend providing tea and coffee.
Files and Documents
Upload any useful documents for volunteers to download e.g. maps and itineraries.
Selection Options
- If applying is selected the volunteer will be warned that their session choice has to be confirmed by an administrator before they can attend.
- If joining (default) is selected then the volunteer is able to self-serve and join sessions with the expectation that they are attending.
Joining Restrictions
Please be aware that if you do have volunteers under the age of 18 you will need policies in place for the following areas:
- Health and safety
- Safeguarding
- Insurance that covers under 18 volunteers
We do encourage that organisation not discriminate on age and provide all our volunteers an equal opportunity to take part. However, we do understand that certain roles require an age restriction.
Session and Times
Please select which of the three options best fits the opportunity.