| Volunteers -
Overview
The Office for Recreation and Sport (ORS), through
the State Coaching and Officiating Centre, provides a range
of information regarding volunteers and volunteer management.
Volunteers are essential in the sport and recreation
industry. Volunteers currently carry out almost 80% of all
sport and recreation administration. Without the efforts of
volunteers many of the opportunities we currently have to
participate and be active in sport and recreation would disappear.
A study prepared in 2003 by the Australian Bureau
of Statistics illustrates just how much we depend on volunteers
in Australia.
In 2000:
- Over 1 million people undertook voluntary
work in sport organisations
- 130 million hours of work by volunteers
in 2000 was conducted in sport and recreation
- 70,000 people would have to have been employed
full-time to cover the time contributed by volunteers in
sport
- The value of the work carried out by sport
volunteers is estimated at $1.5 billion annually
- South Australia leads the nation with our
rate for volunteers in sport being 2.4% higher than the
Australian average.
Below is a list of topics related to volunteers
and volunteer management:
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