It is never easy to get people involved in volunteering for your association. However, working as a volunteer is an important and rewarding act. Participating in community life promotes mutual aid, allows you to contribute to various causes – humanitarian, charitable, cultural – and is a concrete way to give your free time.
To attract motivated, dynamic and truly committed volunteers, it is essential to organize events to promote volunteering. Meeting directly and creating a social link are the keys to convincing new people to join your project.
The Best Events to Hire Volunteers
1. The forum of associations
Associative forums are essential moments to highlight your volunteer actions. Every year, from the beginning of September, the associations can present their activities, welcome the public and facilitate the search for new volunteers.
Tip: Use this forum as your first meeting. Volunteer involvement requires reflection and time: focus on your motivations and your activities to welcome volunteers in the long term.
2. Open Days (JPO)
The JPOs allow the public to discover your activities and objectives. You can organise these days at your convenience and choose the most suitable period, for example between two seasons for a sports club.
Tip: give participants a period of reflection to fully commit to your association.
3. World Volunteer Day
Celebrated on December 5, this day is an opportunity to recognize and value your volunteers. It helps build loyalty among your team and generate word-of-mouth to recruit new volunteers.
4. Participatory workcamps
Participatory or solidarity projects mobilise several volunteers around concrete actions, such as the renovation, decoration or construction of an associative place.
Example: a sports club can organize a project to repaint the house of the associations, involving parents and members for future activities.
5. Meetups
Meetups are warm, often informal networking events that allow you to meet people who share the same interests.
Thanks to platforms like Meetup.com, your association can attract new volunteers by organizing conferences, aperitifs or interactive workshops.
6. Webinars
With the health restrictions, online events have become essential for recruiting volunteers remotely.
Advantages:
- Attract a large audience without physical commitment
- Collect information for follow-up and recruitment
- Organize information meetings or group sessions
Recommended tools: Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Livestorm.
7. Organize your own events
Don’t neglect the creation of internal events: workshops, trainings, raffles or lunches can highlight your actions and create a link with your future volunteers.
Tip: Be visible and engaging, distribute flyers, lead workshops, and show the dynamics of your association.
Why do these events encourage volunteer involvement?
These moments of sharing are crucial because they:
- Make an impression and facilitate decision-making
- Allows participants to feel useful and involved
- Strengthen the bonds between existing volunteers and new members
With the current health situation, webinars and virtual events remain essential tools, combining time savings and fluid interactions.
Make it easy to manage your volunteers with eBrigade
To maximize the impact of your events and optimize the follow-up of your volunteers, it is essential to have a high-performance management tool. eBrigade is an intuitive solution that centralizes all information related to volunteers and your association activities. With this platform, you can:
- Easily manage registrations for events (forums, JPO, webinars, participatory worksites)
- Track the availability and engagement of your volunteers
- Communicate quickly and effectively with your teams
- Create reports and statistics to measure the impact of your actions
With eBrigade, the coordination of volunteers becomes simple, efficient and collaborative, allowing you to focus on the essentials: developing your associative actions and recruiting new motivated volunteers.
