Log Your Hours & Skills

The Volunteering Hub can also help you keep a record of your volunteering experiences. Logging your hours and skills will create a very useful resource to look back on when writing applications!

Why log your hours and skills?

Annual volunteering hours certificates. Log 25, 50, 100 or 200 hours of volunteering to earn a certificate!
Helps you keep a record of your volunteering experiences.
A useful resource to look back on when applying for jobs/future activities.
Access to a personalised skills record.

What counts as volunteering?

You can log your hours for any time you’ve given to a voluntary activity. This can be inside and outside of the Students’ Union.

If you’re not sure whether you are volunteering or not, see below some examples of different types of volunteering:

Community

In the Students’ Union and University

Student Group/Sports Committee

Academic Reps

Charity shop volunteer
Telephone befriending volunteer
Volunteer tutor for Volunteer Tutor Organisation

Peer Mentor
Litter Picking with the SU
Library Champion

Committee meetings
Recording meeting minutes
Responding to emails
Training sessions
Updating social media pages

Gathering feedback from other students
Attending and preparing for meetings
Training sessions
Creating surveys

It does not count as volunteering if it is a placement required of your course, or if it is for a for-profit organisation.

All charities have a registered charity number which can be found by searching the name of the organisation on the Charity Commission website. You can search here to check that the charity is legitimate.

Not all volunteering will clearly fit into the above examples, so please contact us if you have any questions about whether your opportunity counts as volunteering.

How to Log your hours/Skills

We have a step-by-step guide to logging your hours and skills.