Questions about volunteer rights, agreements, motivation, and managing volunteers effectively in your CSO.
How do we manage and motivate volunteers effectively?
We go through cycles where we have loads of enthusiastic volunteers and then they gradually drop off. We had a big intake at the start of the year and we're already seeing numbers fall. I don't think it's the cause — people seem genuinely interested — but I wonder if we're not giving them a […]
Do volunteers have the same legal rights as employees in T&T?
We rely heavily on volunteers — probably 20 regular volunteers who give a serious amount of time. I've always assumed that because they're not paid we don't really have any legal obligations towards them. But someone recently mentioned that if a volunteer got injured at one of our activities we could be in serious trouble. […]