Kristen E. Natale

The week our latest Active Lives survey results come out is always one I look forward to, because it’s a chance to step back, look at the data and really understand what’s happening with volunteering in our sector. With Volunteers’ Week here, I wanted to share a few reflections on the latest adults release – what it tells us about the state of volunteering right now and what it might mean for those of us working across sport and physical activity.

Today we’ve published a new resource in which we share the learnings from our Volunteering Scaling Programme. By sharing practical tools and approaches that have worked within the programme, we hope to help other organisations develop their own actionable plans to scale, which in this context means to expand their reach and create lasting impact in sport and physical activity. The resource is called 'Tools and mindsets to scale your impact' and you can download it at the bottom of this page.

In November 2017 we launched our volunteering funds - Opportunity and Potentials. The 32 investments we made aimed to mobilise a new generation of volunteers, seeking to reach those who were underrepresented in sport and physical activity volunteering. We’re now more than two years on from those investments being announced and, to learn what’s working, what isn’t and where to invest in the future, we’re running an evaluation process in partnership with CFE Research.