Volunteer Pay Packet

A Volunteer Pay Packet is a visual aid of what your volunteers gain and what they lose with their volunteering.

Designing a Volunteer Pay Packet is an activity where you list the out the positives a volunteer gains from their involvement in the left hand column, and the negatives in the right hand column.

For the best results, consider asking your volunteers for their perspective.

Creating a Volunteer Pay Packet can be helpful for a number of reasons:

• Retention: Understanding the give and take for each volunteer can help design volunteer retention strategies.
• Effectiveness: Volunteers that feel valued and heard will work harder and are more likely to stay with the organisation
• Community Engagement: Volunteers that feel valued are more likely to tell friends and family about their volunteer work which can help improve the organisations reputation and increase engagement from the community.

This template is a part of the Recruit and Retain Volunteers eLearning module.