{"id":251,"date":"2012-07-24T23:04:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T23:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/?p=251"},"modified":"2013-01-02T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T16:00:56","slug":"debate-on-the-olympic-legacy-for-the-voluntary-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/2012\/07\/24\/debate-on-the-olympic-legacy-for-the-voluntary-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate on the Olympic legacy for the voluntary sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian Voluntary Sector Network held a live Q &amp; A with a panel of experts today:\u00a0<a title=\"The Olympic legacy for the voluntary sector\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/voluntary-sector-network\/2012\/jul\/19\/voluntary-sector-olympic-legacy?newsfeed=true\" target=\"_blank\">The Olympic legacy for the voluntary sector<\/a>.\u00a0As both a volunteer manager and a Games Maker Team Leader, I think there are some very interesting points raised. Highlights for me are:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the importance of getting it right; contacting people quickly, keeping them informed and making them feel valued.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the Olympics has raised the profile of volunteering in this country and empowered a lot of people to get involved and play a part in a unique event in London&#8230;.I think LOCOG have been very successful in shifting perceptions that volunteers have real jobs and are senior, experienced professionals are not just being used for casual jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LOCOG intentionally didn&#8217;t talk about volunteers but gave them a distinctive brand of Games Makers to reinforce they were the ones who made the Games happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the sense of pride and engagement people feel by being part of a movement is a great concept we should think about more when designing roles and developing programmes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"See full questions and responses here.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/voluntary-sector-network\/2012\/jul\/19\/voluntary-sector-olympic-legacy?newsfeed=true\" target=\"_blank\">See full questions and responses here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian Voluntary Sector Network held a live Q &amp; A with a panel of experts today:\u00a0The Olympic legacy for the voluntary sector.\u00a0As both a volunteer manager and a Games Maker Team Leader, I think there are some very interesting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/2012\/07\/24\/debate-on-the-olympic-legacy-for-the-voluntary-sector\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,20,15,27,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brilliant-examples","category-charity","category-olympics","category-sports-clubs","category-volunteer-manager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweredbyvolunteers.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}