Benefits of volunteering
What's in
it for me?
Are you interested in becoming a volunteer for NCMA? As well as
giving you the opportunity to develop your professional skills,
there's also a great social side to volunteering.
Volunteers on average dedicate up between 10
and 15 hours per month to NCMA. Reasons for volunteering
include:
- commitment to childminding and home-based
care
- accessing information to stay ahead
- meeting and learning from other members
- to have a voice in influencing the
Association
- developing personal skills.
The majority of NCMA volunteers began
their volunteer journey in a childminding group or association.
The benefits of volunteering include
- being better informed about childminding
policy and what NCMA is doing
- meeting and supporting other members around
the region
- a personal sense of satisfaction – of "giving
something back" and "making a difference"
- representing and promoting childminding and
members, giving a sense of being more involved with childminding as
a result
- the opportunity to gain and develop new
skills (e.g. in public speaking, presentation etc.) which grows
personal confidence.