Local clubs looking for volunteers are being encouraged to interact with potential volunteers via a new app.
The tool, built by Volunteering Queensland, promises to make life a little easier for the local volunteers who keep our footy clubs, kindies and community organisations running.
All across Queensland thousands of volunteers sit around tables late into the night making decisions, reviewing finances and planning ahead to make sure the local organisations that are the lifeblood of our community keep doing what they do.
It’s a plain English guide to what you need to know when you join a committee or board and points people to the best available resources depending on where they are on their journey as a governance member.
It is not everything there is to know, but it is an easy-to-understand guide to get started from the view of the individual, rather than from the view of the organisation, following a circular lifecycle diagram.
“We built the tool with local volunteers who serve on committees, so it’s designed specifically for the needs of local people who have put their hand up but who may not have much experience sitting around a Board table,” Volunteering Queensland CEO Mara Basanovic said.
“One of the things people told us is that there is already a lot of information out there – too much in fact – so what they were looking for was one place to make sense of it all.”
You can find the My Governance Journey tool at the Volunteering Queensland website to coincide with the organisation’s 40th birthday, from February 6.
