Volunteer Induction and Role Record
Gives every volunteer the same start and leaves one sheet you can find later, instead of a role that was agreed in a doorway and an induction nobody recorded.
FC-21 1 page
Faith and community groups · FC-22
Volunteer Rota and Availability Grid
A free printable volunteer rota sheet — an availability grid to fill in first, then the rota itself with a name against every duty and a column for swaps.
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2 pages. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
What this sheet is for
Stops the rota being built from guesswork, because the dates people cannot do are written down before any name is put against a duty.
Who it is for
Rota organisers in churches, community halls, food banks, charity shops and any group whose week depends on volunteers turning up.
How to use it
- Write the dates you are covering across the top of the availability grid.
- Ask each volunteer to mark every date free, unavailable or unsure.
- Write your own duty names into the blank headings on the rota below.
- Fill the rota from the grid, then note any swap in the last column so the sheet stays true.
- Give everyone a copy, or pin it where the team actually looks.
What is on the sheet
2 pages, in this order:
Page 1
Printed under the title: The two halves of filling a rota on one sheet: who is free on which date, and then the dates themselves with a name written against every duty.
Availability first, then the rota. Fill the availability grid first, with the team in the room or by asking round, then write the rota underneath from what it shows. Duties, dates and how far ahead you plan are yours — write your own into the blank headings.
Write-on lines: Group or team · Period covered · Rota drawn up by
Availability — one row per volunteer; mark each date free, unavailable or unsure
Table, 14 rows: Volunteer · Contact · Date · Date · Date · Date · Date · Date · Date
Page 2
Rota — write the duty into each heading, then the name into each box
Table, 22 rows: Date · Duty · Duty · Duty · Duty · Swapped / notes
Questions
Why are the duty headings blank?
Because no two groups share the same duties. Welcome, sound, reading, counting, refreshments, setting out chairs — write in yours and the sheet fits your group rather than somebody else's.
Why keep availability and the rota on one page?
So the person drawing up the rota can see both at once. Separated, the grid gets lost and the rota gets built from whoever answered their phone.
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