Volunteers are essential to running a welcoming, vibrant and sustainable community cinema. Below is a downloadable guide created by Cinema For All with the support of Regional Screen Scotland offering information on how to value, recruit and develop volunteers at your community cinema.
There are many benefits to having a strong volunteer team including:
- Prevents burnout of the team.
- Shares out responsibilities and workload more evenly.
- Offers more potential for your other ambitions to be achieved for your community cinema.
- Creates opportunities for local people to get involved.
- Good for long term sustainability for your community cinema e.g. if a volunteer leaves the team.
Click here to download Working with Volunteers – PDF
Click here to download Working with Volunteers – Microsoft Word
MORE SUPPORT
The following are organisations who offer support and advice for voluntary organisations, as well as organisations looking to recruit and work with volunteers.
Volunteer Scotland
Volunteer Scotland has a section dedicated to managing volunteers as well as resources. They support a network, where you can advertise positions available.
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO)
The SCVO have a directory of local offices throughout Scotland who are put in place to deliver and support voluntary organisations at a local level.