UCD in the Community Student Volunteering Awards

22/02/2024

Applications for the 2023/24 Student Volunteering Awards are now open!

OVERVIEW OF AWARD:

The UCD in the Community Student Volunteering Awards aim to celebrate and recognise student volunteering in the community (with volunteer-involving organisations) and in UCD activities, such as clubs, societies, peer mentoring, class representatives and the SU.

There are three awards available to UCD students, Bronze, Silver and Gold as outlined below:

BRONZE:  20 hours of volunteering

SILVER:  40 hours of volunteering

GOLD:  60+ hours of volunteering

All types of volunteering are recognised, perhaps you volunteer with your local sports club, or in a nursing home, maybe you did some remote volunteering online or some fundraising for a charity, or you could have volunteered with a social justice or environmental group. You may have volunteered in Dublin, in UCD, in your hometown or internationally. 

To apply for the 2023/24 awards you will need to track and log any hours spent volunteering between 1 June 2023 - Wednesday 31 May 2024 inclusive. 

All types of volunteering are recognised, perhaps you volunteer as a peer mentor, with your local sports club, or in a nursing home, maybe you did some remote volunteering online or some fundraising for a charity, or you could have volunteered with a social justice or environmental group. You may have volunteered in Dublin, in UCD, in your hometown or internationally - on or off UCD campus it all counts! 

ELIGIBILITY:

•  UCD students have the opportunity to earn a Bronze, Silver or Gold award every year, a minimum of 20 hours of volunteering activity is needed to apply

• For the 2023/24 Awards, volunteering hours must be completed between 1st June 2023 to 31st May 2024 inclusive

• The closing date for applications is Monday, 1 July 2024

• The volunteering role/task undertaken must be extra-curricular and without payment or course credit

• Please only include volunteering from your time as a UCD student - you can also include summer volunteering, outside of UCD during the dates outlined above

• The award is awarded to students who have completed an application form with reflective questions (available from the UCD in the Community website here) and have their volunteering hours logged on www.StudentVolunteer.ie/ucd and signed off by their volunteering supervisor/volunteering organisation contact.