• UCD students have the opportunity to earn a Bronze, Silver or Gold award every year, a minimum of 20 hours of volunteering activity is needed to apply
• For the 2022/23 Awards, volunteering hours must be completed between 1st June 2022 to 31st May 2023 inclusive
• You do not have to get a Bronze or Silver award before applying for a Gold
• The volunteering role/task undertaken must be extra-curricular and without payment or course credit
• Please only include volunteering from your time as a UCD student - you can also include summer volunteering, outside of UCD during the dates outlined above 
• The award is awarded to students who have completed an application form with reflective questions (available from the UCD in the Community website here) and have their volunteering hours logged on www.StudentVolunteer.ie/ucd and signed off by their volunteering supervisor/volunteering organisation contact.

The closing date for applications is now extended until Thursday 31st August 2023 at 5pm

STEP 1:

Complete your volunteering! 

Register on www.StudentVolunteer.ie/ucd and log your volunteering hours via your portal. Click here for a video on how to log ad-hoc hours. UCD in the Community will confirm your volunteering hours with the organisation you volunteered with.

STEP 2:

Fill out the UCD in the Community Volunteering Awards Application form on our website here and complete the reflective questions. Please state here what Award you are applying for (Bronze, Silver or Gold).

STEP 3:

To be eligible for an Award, STEP 1 and STEP 2 must be completed by Thursday 31st August 2023.

STEP 4:

All completed forms will be reviewed by the UCD in the Community team and once signed off you will receive confirmation of your award via email.

STEP 5:

The Awards ceremony will take place in the Academic term 2023/2024.

Note:

The applicant should log their volunteering hours on www.StudentVolunteer.ie/ucd, and complete the application form on the UCD in the Community website, providing evidence of reflection on how they are different from before they volunteered (e.g. what have they learned and how have their attitudes changed) and how the organisation/individual has benefitted from the applicant’s involvement.

1. First of all you need to register on StudentVolunteer.ie here.
2. Then log your volunteering hours:

• If you have completed volunteering hours through an opportunity that was posted on StudentVolunteer.ie you can log your hours under that opportunity in your dashboard. To view your dashboard you must first log in using your email and password.

• Have you completed volunteering that you didn't apply for via StudentVolunteer.ie? That's no problem! You can still keep track of your volunteering hours by using the 'Log Additional Volunteering Hours' section on your dashboard. Please check out our video here on how to do this.

• Once your hours are logged, UCD in the Community will confirm those hours with the organisation and/or UCD contact that you have provided contact details for.

After you have logged your hours, make sure that you complete the UCD in the Community Volunteering Awards form.

If you have any questions please contact us on ucdic@ucd.ie 

The closing date for applications is EXTENDED TO Thursday, 31st August 2023

Please email UCD in the Community on ucdic@ucd.ie if you have any questions