Registering volunteer hours – we need your help!
07 Apr 2020
Encourage our undergraduate students to register their volunteering hours on our University’s Volunteer Hub
Last year, our students applied to volunteer 4,600 times but we have found that many are not recording their hours. This means they are missing out on the Stellify Award and the University can’t properly celebrate the amazing commitment our students are making.
We need your help to encourage our undergraduate students to register their volunteering hours on the University’s Volunteer Hub. This way, our teams can assess how many students still need support in achieving the Stellify Award.
Students can still accrue their hours by volunteering from home or supporting current efforts around coronavirus, including NHS Volunteers and a GM wide volunteer initiative providing support to the third sector.
How can I help?
- Are you running a volunteer project? Log those hours!
If you run a project that uses student volunteers, please ensure that you have posted the hours for your volunteers on Volunteer Hub. You can also encourage any students who you know who volunteer, to ask their organisation to post their hours for them.
- Share our video
If a student has found a volunteering position independently (that’s not advertised on the Volunteer Hub), they will need to upload their hours themselves. They can follow the instructions from our ‘How to’ video.
- Remind students of the Higher Education Achievement Record (HEAR)
If students aren’t aiming for the Stellify Award, they should still log their hours. If they complete the ‘Make a Difference’ section it will appear on their HEAR record. They can share their transcript with potential employers as a verified account of their volunteering.
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