The following letter was received from Karin Sharp SLGA. If you are interested in volunteering please complete the Volunteer Registration form, which can be found in the Pages on the RH side of the blog, and return to Karin:
As part of an internal review of the 2014 playing
season we have taken a decision to review our processes around SLGA
Events next year and would like your assistance in building a database
of local volunteers. As you will be acutely aware
from your own competitions and operations of your County Association
there is a huge reliance on the goodwill of a volunteer base and at SLGA
we have perhaps not been as smart about this as we could have been and
this is something that we are looking to address.
At our major events eg Scottish Championships which
operates over a number of days, it is often a challenge for the host
club to provide sufficient volunteers to staff all aspects of the
tournament. Our thought is to supplement that by
building a database of volunteers that we could contact depending on
location of the championship and make better use of the abundance of
skills that we know are out there at County & Club level. How we
would see this working in practise might be as follows:
Scottish Championship at Monifieth in May 2015 –
club would probably provide some volunteers to assist, we would contact
local volunteers from the Angus area in the first instance and then look
at neighbouring County volunteers (where travel
distance was minimal) to see if we can fulfil all required duties,
which might include registration, recording, live scoring, ball spotting
etc. In 2015 some of our major tournaments are being played in Angus,
Ayrshire, Dumfriesshire, Perth & Kinross, Stirling
& Clacks a number of which are fairly central venues!
As outlined, what we wish to do over the next
couple of months is to build a volunteer database, primarily for
assistance at the various tournaments that we run but would not limit
interest to that if individuals have other skills that
we could utilise and your help in spreading the word would be much
appreciated. I am keen to stress that we are not looking to take any
volunteers away from the County Associations but what we are looking to
establish is a list of lady golfers who might be
interested in volunteering at one of our events if it is taking place
in their local area for a day or part of a day.