Volunteer Events Organiser

Volunteer Events Organiser

This role helps to raise vital funds for the charity's work, and encourages others to do likewise. This role can involve organising coffee mornings, dinners, lunches and days out. A fun and energetic role for an organised social networker with a heart.

Download the role profile here (Microsoft Word 2003-7 format)

Email the Volunteering department to find out more

Please describe a 'day in the life' of a Volunteer Events Organiser.

I work very closely with my Area Manager. I can plan my work around what's going on - it's a few hours here, a few hours there. It's just being organised, and writing the letters asking for sponsorship, and then putting things in place. Because if it's an art exhibition, everything has to be taken in and set up the day before. If it's a ball, then visits to the function place. Obviously you have to have meetings and stuff, but on the day, I think we spend the best part of the day blowing up balloons and putting place names and things out. A lot of it is done as a social thing.

And you gain something from it. You don't always have to get something tangible to gain from an experience. I would say it's like being part of a family, and I've made very close friends, lifelong friends from this.