Volunteer-involving heritage organisations survey

Overview

Help us make heritage volunteering more inclusive!

Make Your Mark, a campaign to increase the number and diversity of heritage volunteers in Scotland, is running a survey with Volunteer Scotland and Our Past, Our Future, Scotland’s national strategy for the historic environment, to better understand volunteering in Scotland’s heritage sector. By heritage, we mean built, cultural and natural heritage.

The survey is open to volunteer-involving heritage organisations and groups in Scotland. The survey should be filled out by the person(s) in your organisation who oversee the management/organisation of volunteers. Please provide one response per organisation.

The survey is mostly multiple choice and should take approximately 20-35 minutes to complete. There’s also a section about your demographic information - this is completely optional.

The survey will close for responses on 3 June.

All survey results are anonymous and will be stored on a secured Microsoft Teams website to which only Make Your Mark and Historic Environment Scotland’s National Strategy Data Analyst have access. Analysed and summarised survey results will be shared in reports to Make Your Mark's funders and through Our Past, Our Future and may appear in our annual reports.

Why your views matter

Your responses will inform what support we offer to volunteer-involving organisations, and will help us advocate for your needs within the sector and beyond, as well as help make heritage volunteering accessible, inclusive and enjoyable for everyone.

You can download the survey questions to discuss and formulate responses with other colleagues if need be.