How to log your hours
- Sign in to your CCSU account
- Click on ‘Volunteering Account’ on your left-hand dashboard
- Select ‘Log Hours’ and then ‘Add Hours’
- Add any time volunteering on that one day, as well as the organisation you volunteered for, and the project name if there is one. For example ‘SATEDA: Project Hope’ or ‘CCCU: Sports Coaching’ or ‘CCSU: Course Rep’
- If you gained any skills during your volunteering shift, do remember to add them here so you can see your skills achieved throughout the year.
- Navigate back to your Dashboard to see your awards progress and how near you are to the next CCCU Student Volunteering Award.
Top 3 reasons to log your hours 🤔
- Achieve Volunteering awards when you reach the criteria for Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond (see awards page for more info)
- Achieve a LinkedIn badge for your volunteer awards, so you can add your award to your LinkedIn profiles
- To learn what skills you have gained from participating in your volunteer role see employability page for more info
What you can log ✅
- Any volunteering shifts completed since the 1st September this academic year
- Any mandatory training completed either before you started the role or any ongoing training
- Any preparation before your volunteering shifts- such as lesson planning
- Any charity events, committee training, SU meetings, sponsorship meetings with externals and varsity meetings.
- For student committees- any meeting time, admin time, event planning, and for the social secs only, any time running/leading a social
- For sports- Activating or leading Active Campus sessions and/or joining the Active Campus student ambassador programme
What you can’t log ❌
- Application and Interview times for voluntary roles
- Travel to and from volunteering
- Any volunteeirng completed before the 1st September this academic year
- Any paid work
- For student committees- anything that a non-committee member is part of.
- For sports- attending training matches, warm-ups, competiition dats, sports fed etc.
Deadline
You can log any hours completed from the 1st September to 31st August each academic year.