Merseyside
Sports Partnership (MSP), along with other local partners, are working with organisations
such as Sport England, both at a National and Regional level to support links
between the local volunteering infrastructure and the local sports environment
and to encourage even more people to engage in sports volunteering.
To help progress with this aim, MSP continually invests in volunteer management within sport, both to ensure high and consistent standards of good practice in the sector, and to work towards attracting an even more diverse range of young volunteers.
Recent research carried out by Sport England demonstrates exactly how important sport volunteers are and what a significant contribution the voluntary sports sector makes to volunteering activity as a whole:
• There are 5,821,400 sports volunteers, that's 14% of the adult population
• The sporting sector makes the single
biggest contribution to total
volunteering in England, with 26% of all volunteers
citing "sport" as their
main area of interest
• They contribute one billion hours each year to sport, equivalent to
720,000 additional full time paid workers
• The value of the time contributed by sports volunteers in England is estimated at over £14 billion
Why should you volunteer?
By giving your time you can develop in lots of different ways - gain experience in a variety of different roles, network with key organisations, improve your life skills, make yourself more employable, put 'Volunteer' on your CV and lots more!
Contact the core team today,
click here to find out
more or
click here to fill in the Volunteer Application
Form online.