Accessible Text Alternative for Diagram Wellbeing Inputs and Outcomes for Volunteers in Heritage at Risk Projects.
An accessible text alternative for a Diagram showing wellbeing Inputs and Outcomes for Volunteers in Heritage at Risk Projects, across 6 key themes.
Wellbeing Outcomes Across 6 Themes
Purpose
- Volunteers can indulge their interesting history, archaeology heritage and or place.
- Volunteers can feel altruistic and satisfy their need to do so.
- Volunteers have something to dedicate themselves to/ be a focus for their attention
Being
- Volunteers can be the person they are and express and show that identity
- Volunteers can strengthen their sense of belonging by working in groups with others
- Volunteers can make a meaningful contribution that they feel good about
Capacity
- Volunteers can gain personal satisfaction and bolster employability by learning new skills
- Volunteers increase their interest in/ connection with the world around them by increasing their knowledge
- New perspectives/ opportunities gained from new or diversified experience
Sharing
- Volunteers connect their interest with others
- Volunteers increase their place attachment by connecting with heritage/ place/ community
- Volunteers gain satisfaction through increased social cohesion by connecting with a wider and more diverse range of people
Self-nurture
- Volunteers improve their physical health by being more physically active
- Volunteers increase their sense of hedonic wellbeing through experiences they enjoy
- Volunteers increase their sense of belonging and connectedness with others by extending networks
Self-actualisation
- Volunteers gain a sense of achievement by changing others knowledge and attitudes
- Volunteers take pride in improving the place / area where they are working
- Self-esteem is enhanced by feeling valued
- Optimism is increased by exploring future opportunities and aspirations
Inputs and opportunities provided by HaR interventions
Heritage volunteering offers
- Temporality. Volunteers enjoy the mindfulness and privileged access of niche opportunities
- Discovery. The excitement of discovery and seeing things in new ways contributes to hedonic wellbeing
- Authenticity: feeling connected to tangible remains from the past strengthens empathy and attachment
- Continuity. Activities linking past and present to future offer reassurance about the passage of time and impact positively on perceptions of self-efficacy, connectedness and fulfilment.
At-risk volunteering offers:
- Rescuing. Helping people preserve irreplaceable heritage enables volunteer, offers a sense of purpose, feeling needed and valued and success over adversity
- Nostalgia. Connecting with a lost past, place or person increases perceptions of connectedness, continuity and belonging, nurtures personal interests and builds empathy
- Transformation. Wellbeing is associated with the assurance that change over time is possible and with satisfaction is helping to achieve change.
- Legacy. Wellbeing related to giving, self-esteem and self-actualisation and feeling valued is associated with creating a meaningful legacy.
