Volunteers are the lifeblood of your club. See how OrderWhizz can help them.
Published on: 22 June 2023
How can OrderWhizz help retain your volunteers?
Volunteers are essential to the running of clubs and societies, events and competitions and their commitment and loyalty should never be taken for granted.
A recent Sport England report (1) revealed that that most people who volunteer in sport and physical activity - over six million of them every year (2) - find the experience enjoyable and rewarding. But numbers are dropping.
So why is this and how could OrderWhizz help you retain your volunteers?
Worryingly, the Sport England report found that half of the surveyed volunteers could be classified as ‘at risk’ of dropping out or burnout. They gave a number of reasons for this, including:
• increased demands of time and increased responsibility
• pressure in the role
• lack of enjoyment and motivation.
While volunteers are often very committed, everyone has a tipping point where too much is asked of them. If there are no new volunteers coming in to help spread the workload, they will drop out.
We all know administration is one of the things that can quickly become a tedious chore – whether you’re volunteering or a member of staff. And that’s where OrderWhizz can help.
OrderWhizz is an online booking and ordering system that takes all the paperwork out of running events or socials and streamlines a lot of detailed admin. In this way, it frees up time for volunteers and staff to be more involved in the actual activities they are volunteering for.
OrderWhizz alleviates the need for booking forms, fee payments and huge queues at events and competitions.
Winchester City Penguins have found using OrderWhizz a help in advance of, as well as at, their events:
‘The biggest things for us have been being able to control ticket numbers given that the venue limits numbers of spectators allowed and being free from taking cash or card payments on the day, which speeds up entry to the gallery enormously,’ says Liz Hatfield. ‘It’s a really convenient way to sell time trials and easier for everyone to complete their tasks!’
Swim England West Midlands Region recently used OrderWhizz for their Summer Championships over several weekends which included, among other things, tickets sales and even volunteer orders for lunch via a bespoke menu system.
While their volunteers still had the same level of responsibility, their lives were made much easier by having the administration of the event all online and streamlined.
OrderWhizz provides full reports for bookings, sales or orders which can be printed out as necessary as a failsafe. Volunteers were able to enjoy the event more and complete their tasks quickly and efficiently.
City of Cardiff SC have had similar successful experiences with OrderWhizz:
‘We love using Orderwhizz at City of Cardiff Swimming Club as it provides us with a hassle free approach towards tickets sales,’ says Becky Davies.
‘Selling tickets online helps us to manage our spectator numbers and plan ahead. Orderwhizz will produce a simple to use spreadsheet which can be printed quickly and used to manage door entry.
‘Moving to online tickets sales also means we no longer need to worry about cash floats and taking time out of our busy days to pay cash into the local bank branch. Orderwhizz simply pay the funds directly into our club’s bank account.
‘OrderWhizz support are also very responsive should we need a few minutes help with set-up configuration’
If you would like to see how OrderWhizz can help your volunteers have a better experience then Contact Us Here.