Skills & Volunteering Basic Impacts
What are the Basic Impacts?
- Number of Volunteers
- Cumulative Volunteering Hours
- Cumulative Volunteer Training Hours
- Economic Value of Volunteering
- Profile of Volunteers (including local and low-skilled volunteers)
Overview & Considerations
Basic impacts around skills and volunteering are focused on gathering the numbers of volunteers used at an event and mapping their engagement with that event – either in terms of training for the event or working at the event. These numbers can then be assessed through profiling volunteers based on their demographic make-up. Alternatively, event organisers can use these basic numbers to reach valuable conclusions such as the real economic value of the volunteer hours or value in kind investment into the event budget.
Routes to Measurement
Simple measurement techniques are detailed in the Attendance section of this toolkit. Using this method and collecting data such as e-mail address etc. can pave the way for running more complex measurements such as long terms benefits as outlined in the Advanced Impacts section.