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Volunteering survey - help us to help you

Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council is looking at ways to encourage more people to volunteer in the borough. If you’re already a volunteer we’d like to hear from you. By completing this survey and telling us about your experiences of volunteering, you will help to inform our understanding of this activity so we can identify solutions which may support other people to volunteer in the future.

If you don’t already volunteer, we would encourage you to still complete this survey and tell us what can be done to help you do this in the future.

Please note all responses to this survey will be treated in confidence and whilst we will publish a report detailing key findings, it will not be possible to identify individual respondents from this.

The survey closes 31 May 2024. If you would like more information about this survey, please contact volunteer@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk
1.On average, how often do you volunteer?
2.What is the focus of the volunteering you do? Please note examples are to help selection only - they are not an exhaustive list.
3.How did you find out about your volunteering role?
4.In a few words, can you tell us the main reason why you volunteer.
5.And how important are the following aspects of volunteering to you?
Not
important
Slightly
important
Moderately
important
Very
important
Extremely
important
Helping others
(giving back, serving
the community,
reaching out to
those in need,
sharing and
contributing skills,
supporting, and
encouraging others)
Developing
relationships
(making friends,
meeting people,
sharing experiences,
building
communities,
connecting with the
local community)
Exercising values
and ethics
(supporting each
other to achieve
something, giving
people a chance,
making a difference,
having a voice in the
local area)
Personal benefits
(feeling good, health
and wellbeing, sense
of achievement
and satisfaction,
improved quality
of life, learning
and gaining skills,
building CV)
Involvement
(making things
happen, taking part,
joining in, feeling
part of something)
6.Which of these, if any, are the reasons why you don’t volunteer your time?
7.What can the Council do to encourage and make it easier for people to volunteer in the future?
8.Please rank the following ideas for increasing volunteering locally in terms of the impact you think they can have. (10 being very important, ranking down to 1 as least important]
Rating
Work with young people to encourage them to volunteer
Promoting workplace volunteering schemes
Help with the costs of becoming a volunteer (e.g. training)
Funding to support groups or projects utilising the efforts of volunteers
Events showcasing volunteering opportunities
Award schemes or thank you events for volunteers that have achieved great things
A website promoting volunteering opportunities the Council offer