Department for Communities volunteering survey

The Department for Communities is developing a ‘Volunteering Framework’ which expresses a vision for the future of volunteering in Western Australia. There is a wide variety of what constitutes volunteering activity and the Department for Communities is trying to determine just how wide this variety is. They are inviting people to fill in a short, on-line survey about their involvement in a particular kind of community group – that is, groups that are run by volunteers.

Volunteers can be involved in large, formalised, incorporated not for profit community groups including charities, through to involvement in small, informal clubs or groups of people who share an interest in improving their own lives or the lives of others through their group involvement. Sometimes people don’t consider that what they do is ‘volunteering’, especially if they are spending time with friends doing things they enjoy.

If you are involved in your community through membership in groups, societies, associations and clubs that are run by volunteers they’d like you to tell them about your group and your experience as a member of that group. These groups may be small and informal or larger and incorporated; the groups of interest to them in this survey are groups that are not likely to have any, or very few, paid support staff. The survey closes on 12 February 2011.

The volunteering survey is available online: http://www.communities.wa.gov.au/serviceareas/volunteers/howyoucanhelp/Pages/default.aspx