Lesson 4 - Making a Difference

To:• Understand that some people choose

to use their spare time to volunteer

• Understand why people choose to volunteer

• Understand what someone needs to think about when volunteering

Focus

What do these people do?

Police woman Fundraiser

Lifeboat crew member Teacher

A volunteer helps people or a particular

cause without being paid for their time

• Do you know anyone who volunteers?

• What volunteering roles do they carry out?

What is volunteering?

A call out

Watch Film 5 and see how

volunteering for the RNLI

affects someone’s life

Click here to view

• Why would you choose to volunteer?

• How could volunteering benefit

someone’s life?

Being an RNLI volunteer

• Watch Film 6 – click here to view

• Read through the volunteer

interviews

• What did people in the film and in

the interviews say they get out of

volunteering?

Being a volunteer

Inspire your group

Use the information you have found

out about RNLI volunteers to plan an

advert to inspire someone in your

group to volunteer

To:

• Understand that some people choose

to use their spare time to volunteer

• Understand why people choose to

volunteer

• Understand what someone needs to

think about when volunteering

Review

• Were there any adverts your group planned that would inspire you to volunteer?

• Which ones were they and why?

• What would you suggest to the RNLI and other charities that they could do to inspire more people to volunteer?

Review