Sport, recreation and fitness volunteers come from many and varied backgrounds and their volunteering contributions extend across a variety of industries and organisations. Stacey Clift is one volunteer whose contribution spans many areas!

Stacey Clift likes to spread her volunteering across a range of causes and organisations that she believes in. As a paid worker in the community recreation sector with the Police Citizens Youth Club at Carindale, Stacey has been volunteering in sport, fitness and recreation for about 4 years. She volunteers for community activities for her employer, and also volunteers for The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. In addition, Stacey has volunteered her time and efforts to Lions, Rotary, Carina Senior Citizens and Bunnings.

 

Through her varied volunteering contributions, Stacey has identified event management as the most crucial skill that has benefitted her. Volunteering has also helped develop the scope of her networks for both personal and professional development. Stacey contributes about 5 hours per week to volunteering and appreciates the culture and support systems in place in her workplace.

 

2011 was a big one in terms of volunteering, and Stacey rates her contribution to the Grantham Flood clean up as being her best volunteering experience to date. That would have been hard work, but it was a wet, cold and rainy day of face painting that rates as her worst volunteering experience.

Luckily, for the organisations that rely on her, Stacey rates the rewarding feeling she gets from helping out as the reason she volunteers. Hopefully there’ll be many more rewarding experiences for Stacey in the future.