Wirkungsnachweis aus der Literatur

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

development of social skills for volunteers

Beziehungsaufbau und Interaktiosfähigkeiten

Volunteers indicated that their active engagement in Gamechangers helped to increase a range of social skills including, for instance, their ability to network and socialise with local people in their community, to widen their friendship groups, to approach people who could help them, to try new things, and make other people see their self-worth.

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.
Gamechangers’ capacity to nurture social skills: Volunteer responses
My willingness to try new things; The feeling that I have things to look forward to in my life; My social and communication skills; My range of friends; My participation in social gatherings; My knowledge of organisations I can call upon for support and information; To meet (new) people from my local community; My ability to make friends and approach people I don’t know; The number of contacts that I can call upon; To make other people see their worth.
greatly increased; increased; stayed the same; decreased; decreased greatly
October 2010-March 2012