The Future is Youth: a whole new ball game
16 May 2023
During this online conversation, we discussed the current volunteering landscape in Australia for young people, hearing from prominent speakers who shareed their knowledge around the barriers, the motivations and how we can effectively communicate about volunteering in sport with young Australians.
A facilitated Q and A explored the motivations and benefits of volunteering amongst young people, recruitment strategies that appeal, how sporting clubs can ready themselves for young volunteers as well as understanding new and emerging Australian communities.
Open Access - Available to the public
Presenters:
- Dr. Rosalyn Black, Deakin University
- Holly Hazel, Volunteering Western Australia
- Simon Rodder, Centre for Multicultural Sport
- Adam Weir, Surf Life Saving Australia
Facilitators:
- Dr Sue Regan, Volunteering Australia
- Dr. Lindsey Reece, Australian Sports Commission
Biographies
Dr. Rosalyn Black - Senior Lecturer in Education (Humanities, Societies and Environments), Deakin University and co-author of Youth Volunteering in Australia: An evidence review (Walsh, L., & Black, R. - 2015) will share her insights about youth volunteering in Australia, with a refreshed lens across recent research regarding youth volunteering in Australia as a phenomenon and a practice.
Holly Hazel – Manager Marketing & Communications, Volunteering WA will provide valuable insights for sporting organisations to consider around what volunteering looks like to young people, the barriers young people face in volunteering, the pitfalls of current volunteering recruitment strategies that causes them to fail and what works in motivating and attracting young people to volunteering opportunities.
Simon Rodder – Manager, CM Sport (Centre for Multicultural Sport) will share his knowledge around the power of sport in connecting diverse peoples, how we can bridge the gap between the sporting world and Australia's multicultural communities and their needs, ensuring sporting clubs can be safe and welcoming environments that provide opportunities for culturally and linguistically diverse young volunteers.
Adam Weir - CEO Surf Life Saving Australia, will share how the organisation positively promotes young people as respected members and citizens within their local clubs and communities, and how they successfully engage, recruit, recognise and retain their young volunteers
