Team Event Volunteering: Helpers Needed for Special Olympics New Zealand

Team Event Volunteering: Helpers Needed for Special Olympics New Zealand
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Estimated Time: 2 - 9 Hours Over 1 - 1 Days

Special Olympics New Zealand is hosting their ninth National Summer Games in Wellington - and we need your help running the events! The Games highlight the hard work and dedication of our Intellectually Disabled Athletes, and provides opportunities for them to compete in eleven sports around the Wellington region. Special Olympics empowers athletes by focusing on the abilities that they have and the best way to showcase these abilities, while combining this with participation, sportsmanship and competition at all different levels. Special Olympics New Zealand is looking for volunteers to be involved in our National Summer Games. Volunteers will be required in sporting roles such as timekeeping, measuring, marshalling, awards ceremonies, plus many more; we will also have roles outside of the sports such as administrative roles, data entry, lunch distributing, Opening and Closing Ceremony roles, etc.

Working location

The Terrace, Willis Street, Kelburn, City Centre, Seaview, Kilbirnie, Naenae

Proposed project steps with time estimates

Special Olympics New Zealand is looking for interest from volunteers to be involved in our National Summer Games. Rolls that need to be filled include:

- Sunday 26/11 - Accommodation marshals. These roles require two volunteers at each site to assist the Accommodation Manager with meet and greet, allocation of keys and general enquiries – customer service.
Hours may vary and will start around 10.00am till 6.00pm (we’ll split shifts based on peoples availability to assist)

- Monday 27/11 – Wednesday 28/11 (you can pick a day or volunteer over a number of days) - City centre – transport marshals: Role – Marshalling athletes from accommodation to bus hubs (hubs set up at Parliament, Civic Centre and Kelburn Parade), and marshalling athletes onto buses

- Monday 27/11 to Thursday 30/11 (you can pick a day)
8.00am – 5.30pm: General marshalling duties at the Bocce event, Hutt Park, Seaview

- Monday 27/11
General marshalling duties at Basketball (Kilbirnie)
12noon – 5.30pm

- Tuesday 28/11 to Thursday 30/11
Healthy Athletes Programme – Walter Nash Stadium, Naenae and we have a team based at the Poneke Club rooms
Hours
8.00am – 5.00pm at Walter Nash Tues/Wed/Thurs
8.00am – 2.00pm at Poneke Club rooms Tues/Wed
Role: meet and greet athletes off buses, marshalling them to waiting areas and then onto treatment rooms.

What We Have In Place

Please choose a "team leader," or point person, for your team to apply for this project on behalf of the whole group. When applying, please indicate how many people are a part of your team.

Special Olympics Wellington

Accessibility
Disability
Health
Sport
Wellbeing

New Zealand wide

Mission

Special Olympics Wellington provides sports training and competition for people with an intellectual disability. (NB: Paralympics NZ is a different organisation)

What we Do

Special Olympics Wellington provides sports training and competition for people with an intellectual disability. (NB: Paralympics NZ is a different organisation). Special Olympics is an international organisation that changes lives by promoting understanding, acceptance and inclusion between people with and without intellectual disabilities. Through year-round sports training and athletic competition and other related programming for more than 4 million children and adults with intellectual disabilities in more than 170 countries, Special Olympics has created a model community that celebrates people's diverse gifts. Special Olympics Wellington is the local Club responsible for organising training and competition in the Wellington City area. The Club is affiliated to Special Olympics New Zealand and operates under SONZ Club Rules. Approximately 120 athletes are involved in a number of different sports.