THE NSW SES has come up with more ways for people to volunteer to ensure the emergency service can respond in all situations.
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Volunteering strategist Andrew McCullough said industry research had found that people wanted to volunteer in different ways and the SES has now responded to that demand.
“We identified some time ago that there is a high turnover of volunteers and in some communities it’s hard to recruit volunteers, so we’ve re-imagined volunteering and introduced new categories,” he said.
“Our industry research shows that people want to volunteer for shorter periods, they want to volunteer for particular causes rather than for an organisation for 30 years.”
The SES is now offering spontaneous volunteering categories, embracing corporate volunteering and looking to set up community action teams where there is no SES presence currently.
“It will help us increase our capability and help us retain volunteers and will help us better engage with our local communities,” Mr McCullough said.
Central West region controller Craig Ronan said these things were being introduced in Bathurst and other parts of the Central West.
“We’re actually adopting this and starting to implement it now,” he said.