Launceston a go go!
On Wednesday I was in Launceston with Anne-Marie, (brrrrrrrrrr…!) We filmed 6 volunteer stories and they were all fantastic.
We allowed 30 mins for each person, filmed about 6-8 minutes and we also took a stills shot on a little mini polaroid. For the polaroid, I asked the question: ‘Why do you do what you do?’ and the volunteer wrote their answer on the white board . (To contribute, to give back, I enjoy it, it enriches etc) were some of the answers.I will attach a couple of pics here. The polaroids break the ice and sometimes can be nice to use on story cards.
Then we filmed mainly focussing on how they came up with the idea to volunteer, their first reading partners, best moments, worst moments etc.
It was full on..but really worthwhile. You will see the results in about ten days. They should be useful across all your regions as talking triggers, training points and recruitment materials.
There were beautiful stories, some tears (always good!) and a great willingness to share.
We spoke with a few volunteers who had more stories than we had time. Some of those would be really great to collect in an anonymous way: print stories or audio.
Anne-Marie had organised perfectly of course! Garry now has his whole iphone filming thing happening and has sorted the software hiccups.
So it’s Launceston a go go…!
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Fantastic! can we use this for volunteer introductions else where or do we intend to get our own personel ones? Well done annie
Absolutely they will work across all your regions Ms Seasonsforme!
But yes, it would be great if we could have representations from all your LINC’s.
We are currently working out how to make that happen…but I am very hopeful!
I am seeing Libby in Burnie in September and we’ll be gathering stories from there…
So maybe the south needs a turn next!!
Moya