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1. I work for a community organisation. I’ve just seen your web site and want to recruit ALIVE Volunteers – what should I do?
If your opportunity is approved and available for students to see online, they will be able to express an interest in your volunteer role. An automatic email will be sent to you with their contact details. You will then need to contact them as soon as possible about volunteering.
2. What can the CKI do for us?
NUI Galway's ALIVE programme are delighted to partner with you in providing volunteer opportunities to undergraduate or postgraduate students. Please contact us if you want to discuss how best to attract volunteers for your organisation.
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3. What will the ALIVE programme expect from us as a partner organisation?
Firstly we would like your contact details so that we can get in touch with you. Also please send us key documents (wherever possible) like Annual Reviews and Policies.
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4. We’ve got a once-off event coming up that we really need help with. Can you provide volunteers?
Of course! We can advertise with ALIVE volunteers for once-off events or for projects that require volunteers on a regular basis. See our once-off volunteering on our Community Events Calendar
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5. This sounds good in theory, but we don’t have any volunteer opportunities at present. Can we still register our interest with you?
Absolutely! Quite a few of the external organisations in our database don’t have any current projects, but they may come up from time to time. Once you have registered with us, it will be very quick and easy to set up a project with volunteers, should one arise. Please
contact us to register.
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6. Will we be expected to supervise and train the volunteer while they work with us?
All our volunteers need to have a ‘supervisor’ of sorts – someone they can go to if they need help, are unsure about something or maybe even become unhappy while working. With regards to training – if they have to use specific methods or a complex piece of equipment, then yes, it will be your responsibility to train them.
7. Can you guarantee to find us a volunteer for every project or placement we have available?
Regrettably no, we can’t. We would very much like to be able to though!
8. How do you advertise our projects?
Once you have registered with us and completed both the long project description and the short (which has just the bare facts of the project – this is what we send out to our volunteers) we will advertise your projects in our weekly email bulletin, on the website, and at the ALIVE office. Volunteers can read through your volunteering opportunity on the website and express interest in volunteering.
An email will be automatically sent to you with the students contact details. Please ensure to get back to the students that have emailed you.
9. I have NUI Galway students volunteering with my organisation, but there not registered with ALIVE.
The ALIVE programme supports all NUI Galway students, whether they got in contact with you through ALIVE or not. We want to know about them! If you tell us that you have students volunteering with you then we can support them with training and recognition via the NUI Galway ALIVE Certificate. You can encourage your student volunteers to sign up on our website and then we can offer them support as volunteers or simply email us your list of volunteers.