Why Log Your Hours?
Any volunteering you do during your time as a student at RGU can be logged with us, this can lead to you getting a volunteering hour certificate, this is applicable to postgraduate and undergraduate students. If you are a full-time undergraduate student we are able to add your hours to your university HEAR record. By logging your hours, you are able to confirm your volunteering and employers will be able to see what you've done which all full time undergradute students can access via Gradintel, so it is very important to make sure you get credit for your efforts.
How To Log Your Hours:
Logging volunteering hours is now open! Click this link to fill in the form here for each individual volunteering role you have done. Deadline for submitting hours is Sunday 2nd March 2025.
The contact name and email should be for your supervisor or whoever can confirm your hours, for societies you should list the President of the society.
As we need to log all the volunteering in time for the Student Achievement Awards Ball each year, we log hours from March to February. The current period for logging hours is from March 2024 to February 28th 2025. For hours out of this time period you can track your hours here: this page will take you to your profile page and you will see a section called 'skills log', this is where you can track your hours until the submission form is available in for the following year.
Any queries connected to volunteering can be directed to volunteering@rguunion.co.uk
Student Achievement Awards
After submitting your hours to RGU Union, you should consider nominating anyone that you volunteer with for an award at the Student Achievement Awards Ball. Nominations will open soon and tickets will be on sale the 31st of January.
Other Awards to Consider Submitting For:
For those who are aged 25 or younger, you can also sign up to the Saltire Awards, which is a Scottish Government scheme to reward young people for their volunteering. It's separate to our volunteering logging scheme but is well worth signing up to if you are eligible as Saltire Awards are recognised by employers across the country.
Click here for more info on the Saltire Awards.
RGU offer Beyond The Classroom Pathways (BCP), which recognises the skills, time, effort and value of your volunteering. A BCP certificate will be awarded for activities including volunteering, sports clubs and activities, community engagement and student societies and roles linked to the Student Union such as School Officer.
Click here for more info on the Beyond The Classroom Pathways