Encouraging Volunteers
Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 10:20 am
There have been many posts on here over time, regarding the problems getting volunteers at races. predominately judges and this always attracts comment. I think their is a thread running on another post at the moment.
I wonder if maybe we should look at it in a wider context.
Instead of just encouraging people to judge or serve time in control, why don't we extend the learning and encourage a more varied range of people to be on the jury - it would be a brilliant way to get them to see it from a different angle and provide a bigger bank of jurors to draw from.
Also, with judges, if we accept there is a shortage, you could consider expanding participation where each paddler has a parent judge at a percentage of races a year. This would draw in parents who never get involved but only for a small percentage of races and alleviate the stress on overstretched volunteers - which causes tension. You could prob get a rota out of that
I wonder if maybe we should look at it in a wider context.
Instead of just encouraging people to judge or serve time in control, why don't we extend the learning and encourage a more varied range of people to be on the jury - it would be a brilliant way to get them to see it from a different angle and provide a bigger bank of jurors to draw from.
Also, with judges, if we accept there is a shortage, you could consider expanding participation where each paddler has a parent judge at a percentage of races a year. This would draw in parents who never get involved but only for a small percentage of races and alleviate the stress on overstretched volunteers - which causes tension. You could prob get a rota out of that