Dear Volunteer

As you may or may not be aware, over the past 6 months I have been in post as British Triathlon's Volunteer Development Officer. During this time, I have begun the process of raising the profile of volunteering in triathlon and providing more support to our volunteers through our website (www.britishtriathlon.org/volunteer), tri- news and through your RDO.

Another way in which I hope to provide more support and information to you as a volunteer, coach or referee is by giving you the opportunity to register as a British Triathlon Volunteer. In doing this, I will have more information on your skills, but also what you would like to do during your time as a volunteer, if you are not already doing it. Your details will be stored on a specific database and only British Triathlon staff will have access to this information.

I appreciate that this is another form to fill in, but I do hope you will take the time to send it back to me, along with any feedback on the questions asked if you would like. I really feel that creating a database to store the details of all our volunteers will increase the amount of communication you all have with myself and British Triathlon in general and we can help you in the work you do for the sport.

As an incentive, all registered volunteers will be placed in a draw at the end of every month. One person will be chosen at random and will win a British Triathlon micro fleece. You will also receive a bi-monthly newsletter starting from November via e-mail detailing volunteer news, stories, pictures and potential opportunities. I hope you will find this useful. I, along with some of my colleagues, am also working on creating a membership scheme for our volunteers. I will hopefully be able to give you more details of this before the end of the year.

I look forward to receiving your form'

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