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Question:

What is a volunteer?

Listen, think, share

• Write the sentence ‘I volunteer at my local football club.’ on the board. What do you think the word volunteer means in this sentence? Do you know what a volunteer is?
• Explain that a volunteer is somebody who works for an organisation or carries out a task without being paid. What do you think the volunteer working at the local football club might do in their role?
• Look at resource 1, which shares some examples of people volunteering. Have you ever volunteered to do something before e.g. helped at an after-school fair, joined a litter pick?
• Can you think of any other examples of people volunteering? Do you know any people that work in school who are volunteers e.g. adults that listen to us read, school governors, parents on your PTA.
• Explain that some people choose to volunteer on a regular basis, like the person working in the charity shop, whereas other people volunteer as a one-off or when they are free.
• Do you think you would enjoy being a volunteer? Why? If you could volunteer to do something in the future, what would you do?

Reflection

A volunteer is someone who gives up their time to either work for an organisation or carry out a task without being paid. Some people volunteer regularly; others volunteer when they can.