Tuesday 4th June 2024
Our new Digital Volunteer Boards launched in April this 12 months with two boards for No Strings Coordinators being delivered by Volunteer Supervisor for Badminton England, Holly Robson, and Adults Supervisor, Tanya Chethan.
These two boards engaged 14 No Strings Coordinators who participated in varied discussions and got the chance to share their successes, challenges and perception on what help they’d discover worthwhile from Badminton England to help them of their voluntary roles.
Following on from this, two extra Digital Volunteer Boards for Referees and Match Organisers had been hosted by Badminton England final month delivered by Holly as soon as extra alongside Competitions Supervisor, Jon Hancock.
The purpose of the Digital Volunteer Boards was to carry collectively teams of volunteers who make our sport tick on a day-to-day foundation – to attach them and assist each Badminton England and the volunteers themselves study and share experiences, suggestions and finest observe. And by delivering the boards just about, we had been in a position to remove the geographical boundaries and permit these volunteers to work together with others in related roles proper throughout the nation.
The primary discussion board for Referees and Match Organisers was aimed toward new volunteers (those that had both not too long ago accomplished the Referee Stage 1 Qualification or had been fascinated about changing into a referee) and noticed 4 eager new referees attend and share their ideas on beginning their refereeing journey.
The next week, a second discussion board for twelve skilled Referees and Match Organisers was delivered, bringing collectively those that are at the moment lively within the roles to share their experience and supply them with the chance to community with one another, share examples of fine observe, talk about challenges and work collectively to seek out options. The chance sparked a number of optimistic dialog promoted the sharing of data and helped these taking part help each other of their respective areas.
Following the success of the boards, extra Digital Volunteer Boards will probably be delivered later within the 12 months with the intention for them to turn out to be a bi-annual on-line platform for volunteers inside badminton.
This week is Volunteer’s Week and these boards are a software enabling Badminton England to supply continued help for its cohort of referees. Future Boards will keep in mind suggestions from attendees on what matters they want to see coated – so importantly these boards will probably be formed by the volunteers themselves.
Thanks to all who took half!
