Wirkungsnachweis aus der Literatur

Mittelfristig (1 bis 5 Jahre)
Mikro (Individuum)
Sozial

increased willingness to volunteer by following role models for volunteers

gesellschaftliche Partizipation

Gamechangers participants who highlighted that role models had been the ones who had initially introduced them to the whole notion of volunteering. Across both London and Coventry, role models helped divert young people away from the streets and into youth centres, into community clubs and into volunteer campaigns that positively engaged them in meaningful activities. For many participants, Gamechangers also provided a setting where young people were able to identify and ‘look up to’ others who they considered role models. In London, one female volunteer spoke of how she had met her sporting heroes and idols as a consequence of her involvement in Gamechangers and this had further motivated her friends to join the programme Other participants identified role models closer to home, indicating that they had family members who had volunteered in the past.

Beschreibung der Aktivität

Gamechangers programme administered by the independent charity Vinspired
Vinspired is an initiative promoting and enabling volunteering, aims to make volunteering diverse, attractive and accessible to a wide range of young people; Gamechangers is a programme enabling young people to volunteer at major sporting events.
Großbritannien
over 2500 volunteers
young people (aged 14-19)
teilnehmende Kinder und Jugendliche
Freiwillig engagierte Jugendliche

Evaluierung der Aktivität

Primary data was collected via the following methods: • Questionnaire survey of 200 Gamechangers volunteers engaged as active participants and leaders; • Placement observations with Gamechangers volunteers and leaders; • One-to-one interviews; • Evaluation reports; • Focus group with leaders, and voluntary, statutory and community-based stakeholder partners and stakeholders; • Focus group interviews with parents and local residents, and YNC; • Documentary analysis of existing quantitative and qualitative data (local, regional, national) and published reports (including policy) on this and similar initiatives.
October 2010-March 2012