2014 Activity Plan/Volunteer Support
- Lead member of staff
Katie Chan
- Indicative budget amount
£2,000 for general support and events; £5,000 for local Wales and Scotland activities respectively; £18,000 for project grants; £12,000 travel grants
- Description and overall rationale
Volunteer support is the central key to growing our capacity and engagement with our community. An extensive volunteer programme has been established and a Volunteer Support member of staff appointed. She has created a working plan and we intend to commission a study into developing our volunteer base when capacity allows within the next year. A lot of the activities in this stream of activity will come from the proposals in our agreed volunteer activity programme – see the volunteering strategy. This budget has, as its fundamental aim, the ambition that initiatives come from our community. If staff support is needed in addition to financial support, it will be given.
Main goals are supporting new volunteers in order to grow the community, and supporting the community with resources to increase their activity and participation in WMUK projects.
- Timelines - i.e. what happens quarter by quarter
- Success criteria and Metrics - overall and quarter by quarter breakdown if relevant
Support new volunteers in order to grow the community
- Increase the number of active volunteers to 150 (gdoc)
- Have 3 active meetups per month (on wiki)
- In Wales and Scotland respectively - 1 active meetup per quarter, 1 event per quarter (on wiki)
Support the community with resources to increase their activity and participation in WMUK projects
- Receive 25 Project Grants per year and work with volunteers to make at least 80% application approved for funding within one month (grants wiki page)
- Organise 3 training opportunities on top of Train the Trainer, to be attended by on average 10 volunteers, evaluated as useful by attendees (event list on wiki, feedback form)
- Have >3,000 media files uploaded to Wikimedia Commons that are either generated by our pool of volunteer equipments or as a result of support from our Project Grants (Commons categories)
- >300 hours of use of our volunteer computer equipments per year (Katie’s log system)
- Risks