Volunteering or recreating?
Thu, 9 Dec 1999, 07:53 amGrant Malcolm8 posts in thread
Volunteering or recreating?
Thu, 9 Dec 1999, 07:53 amWhen you commit to working on a community theatre production, are you volunteering or recreating?
We don't generally expect that volunteers should have to pay for the privilege of donating their efforts to the community.
On the other hand, as the user-pays principle permeates every facet of our society, recreation has been commoditised and we're paying more and more for it.
How would you counter an argument that community theatre companies are providing recreation opportunities not volunteer services and as such members should be paying fees commensurate with membership of a health club?
Cheers
Grant
We don't generally expect that volunteers should have to pay for the privilege of donating their efforts to the community.
On the other hand, as the user-pays principle permeates every facet of our society, recreation has been commoditised and we're paying more and more for it.
How would you counter an argument that community theatre companies are providing recreation opportunities not volunteer services and as such members should be paying fees commensurate with membership of a health club?
Cheers
Grant
RE: Volunteering or recreating?
Fri, 10 Dec 1999, 10:24 amThankyou Grant. That clarified a few things. Now I can carry on with full intent.
Recreation is a pass-time, something you do when you feel like. Very little commitment required (unless on orders from the Doctor *GRIN*.)
Voluntary is a commitment on behalf of an individual. It may be enjoyable for the person in some small measured way, but it is in now way Recreation in the comparison Grant has discussed. Recreation is Solely for ones-self. Firefighting, Surf Rescue, Community Care, Charity Drives are hardly for one individual, and neither is Theatre.
A voluntary service is a team environment which benefits a large number of people both within the team and with-out.
Recreation is self-full. Voluntary work is self-less.
Recreation is taking. Voluntary is giving.
Jeff "Give or Take" Watkins
Recreation is a pass-time, something you do when you feel like. Very little commitment required (unless on orders from the Doctor *GRIN*.)
Voluntary is a commitment on behalf of an individual. It may be enjoyable for the person in some small measured way, but it is in now way Recreation in the comparison Grant has discussed. Recreation is Solely for ones-self. Firefighting, Surf Rescue, Community Care, Charity Drives are hardly for one individual, and neither is Theatre.
A voluntary service is a team environment which benefits a large number of people both within the team and with-out.
Recreation is self-full. Voluntary work is self-less.
Recreation is taking. Voluntary is giving.
Jeff "Give or Take" Watkins
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