Volunteers

Triathlon activities in Yorkshire and Humberside predominately rely upon voluntary personnel. As a dynamic new Olympic sport that is the fastest growing in the world, Triathlon has many unique volunteering opportunities and experiences to offer. From organising an event, being a Treasurer within a club to marshaling at an event, the rewarding and worthwhile activities that are available to potential volunteers are numerous. Whether you have 2/3 hours to spare to help out at an event or one hour a week to coach a group there is a possible volunteering opportunity that you may want to do. The giving of time for the benefit of others is always appreciated by the Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Committee and support will be given to volunteers when ever possible.
For more information about Triathlon volunteering opportunities in Yorkshire and Humberside please contact Morgan Williams, morganwilliams@britishtriathlon.org, 07739 526 560.

Interesting volunteer facts:

    * 22 million adults are involved in formal volunteering each year
    * 90 million hours of formal voluntary work take place each week
    * This work is estimated to be worth about £40billion a year
    * Every pound an organisation spends supporting volunteers generates a notional payback of up to £14

And 26% of these volunteers – over 5 million people – give one billion hours to sport every year. These coaches, officials, mini-bus drivers, match secretaries, umpires, treasurers, stewards and countless other
helpers sustain over 100,000 affiliated clubs with over 8 million members.

Have you helped out at events this year, been involved with organising club training sessions, coaching???

If so, no matter how small we want to know. By simply filling out the volunteer registration form you get the chance to receive prizes in a monthly draw and get information about new volunteer initiatives. Return completed Registration forms, or e-mail the information required for the form, to Morgan Williams No details will be passed onto third parties and all stored information will be kept in compliance with the Data Protection Act.

2005 Yorkshire & Humberside Volunteers of the Year awards

Congratulations go to the following Winners of the 2005 Yorkshire Volunteer, Referee and Coach of the Year:

Paul Mathieson (White Rose) and Jon Hendry (LBT) tied vote in the Volunteer Category

Peter Mathieson (White Rose) in the Referee Category

Sean Palmer (NYP Tri) the Yorkshire & Humberside Coach of the Year.

All of the 15 Yorkshire nominees deserve praise for their efforts in 2005. The regional committee would like to thank those who nominated and voted on the British Triathlon website. If you didn’t vote/ nominate in 2005 please get involved in 2006 and make sure that those who do so much for Triathlon in Yorkshire are recognised.