GORM recognises that volunteers' contributions are valuable and are a key part of our growth. We benefit greatly from their skills, experience and input and we believe that our volunteers should personally benefit from the experience they gain within our Organisation. 

We acknowledge that ‘voluntary work’ is the commitment of time and energy, for the benefit of the society, the community, the environment or individuals outside one's immediate family and is undertaken freely and by choice, without concern for financial gain. 

GORM defines its volunteers as any individual over the age of 18+ (regardless of gender, marital status, family status, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, and ethnicity, inclusive of membership to the of the Traveller community) who contributes their time freely to support our organisation’s mission.

Similarly, GORM is engaged with members from all the communities previously mentioned and is expected that GORM's team, including the volunteer team, will get in contact, engage and work alongside these communities. 

Volunteers can at any time decide to end their relationship with GORM. We advise volunteers to inform their Team Leader of this decision before exiting the volunteer programme. GORM will provide volunteers with an exit questionnaire in which they must complete before leaving the programme so that we can continuously improve our voluntary programme. GORM may also choose to end the volunteer relationship at any point without specified reasons.