Tasmania (TAS)

Volunteering Tasmania, opens in a new tab is a a not-for-profit organisation that aims to represent the interests of all Tasmanians involved in volunteering through research, consultation, policy development and community relationships.

• The state of volunteering report Tasmania 2019, opens in a new tab, Volunteering Tasmania, (2019). There are 68.6% (or 297,000) Tasmanians over 15 years of age who volunteer in Tasmania. This report gives us a snapshot of the findings and highlights from the 2019 research. Detailed findings, including the survey tools used, are available in the full State of Volunteering in Tasmania report.
• Leading and Managing in Tasmania’s Volunteer Sector Volunteer, opens in a new tab, Dr Toby Newstead, Dr Gemma Lewis, and the Volunteer Leadership Research Group, UTAS in partnership with Volunteering Tasmania, (2021). This report distils the findings of a study that sought to assess the current challenges, strengths, and opportunities to better support volunteer coordinators in their efforts to lead and manage within Tasmania’s Volunteer sector. Almost 300,000 Tasmanians volunteer. Approximately 200,000 of these are termed formal volunteers, in that they volunteer within an organisation. The remainder are informal volunteers who give their time in more self-organised community activities. This report focuses on formal volunteers. The findings of this study, coupled with leadership and management research, point to two key recommendations:
  • Invest in providing and developing good leadership and management in the volunteer sector;
  • Conduct further research to examine the challenges, strengths, and opportunities of volunteer leadership and management from volunteers’ perspectives.

The Government of Tasmania, Active Tasmania, opens in a new tab, provides information about managing people (members and volunteers).