National Strategy for Volunteering – Action Plan
Action Plan 2024-2027 is the first three-year Action Plan of the National Strategy for Volunteering.
It outlines a set of co-designed actions designed to address priorities for National Strategy implementation.
The Action Plan identifies lead stakeholders who bear responsibility to progress their actions. It also details dozens of supporting actions: opportunities for others in the volunteering ecosystem to flexibly contribute to Action Plan 2024-2027 and the implementation of the National Strategy.
NSV Action Plan
The first three-year Action Plan will see 22 actions led by stakeholders and networks, collectively making progress towards each of the National Strategy for Volunteering’s Strategic Objectives.
Actions include:
1) New volunteering data collection, including a survey to measure the volunteer experience
2)Greater consistency and alignment of volunteering funding, policies and strategic initiatives
3)Establishing forums and communities of practice to share knowledge
4)Campaigns to raise awareness of volunteering and share volunteering stories
5)Sharing research insights and identifying future topics to explore
6)Development and sharing of resources to support volunteer management
The Action Plan brings together state and territory volunteering peak bodies, federal government departments, federal government agencies, non-government organisations, researchers, the National Strategy for Volunteering Coalition of Support and the wider volunteering ecosystem.
Presenting Action Plan 2024-2027
The National Strategy for Volunteering’s first three-year Action Plan was launched on Wednesday 28 August.
Action Plan 2024-2027 launch celebration was held both online and in-person, featuring special guest: the Minister for Social Services, Amanda Rishworth MP.
Across the country, people are using the National Strategy for Volunteering and Action Plan 2024-2027 to take action for volunteering. You can:
Read through Action Plan 2024-2027 to identify actions that align with your role, mission or priorities.
Start planning which supporting or ecosystem actions apply to your volunteering practice.
Use the National Strategy for Volunteering’s eleven Strategic Objectives as a guide to take action independently and help achieve its vision to make volunteers the heart of Australian communities.
In September 2024, Volunteering Australia hosted an online event to provide more detail on how stakeholders can use the Action Plan to strengthen volunteering.
In keeping with the principles of the National Strategy, Action Plan 2024-2027 has been co-designed with the volunteering ecosystem. This process saw wide engagement from hundreds of volunteering stakeholders across Australia.
Through public workshops, consultations, events and surveys, the volunteering ecosystem contributed 1,600+ ideas for actions to implement the National Strategy. These were analysed to identify key themes, then developed into actions through a series of workshops with a National Strategy working group: the Establishment Design Team.
This team was comprised of over 30 members of the volunteering ecosystem, each representing a different stakeholder and perspective.
The Establishment Design Team also developed criteria used to test suggested actions to ensure they are transformative, timely, scalable and sustainable.
The candidate actions that emerged from the co-design process were tested with key stakeholders across the volunteering ecosystem. Actions that received support were included in Action Plan 2024-2027, while others were noted as potential actions for future Action Plans or for stakeholders taking action independently.
For further information please read the attached Action Plan.
Maddy & Co and Volunteering Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to Elders past and present.
Maddy & Co and Volunteering Australia acknowledges volunteers of all genders, sexualities, abilities, and cultures and the importance of their contribution in building a strong, connected, and resilient Australian community through volunteering.