Tales of Volunteers

The law¹sets a framework, starting with our story. The nature and importance of volunteering as elements essential to understanding the activity of the Campus, that we are able to identify and value this volunteerism and, more broadly, everything you give free of charge to the association : the "voluntary contributions in kind". Pauline Nourtire, Accountant of the Campus, has therefore undertaken this project for 2024.

One very consistent with professional practices This work could be: the accounting principles for the financial year 2024, This represents 18,950 hours, or 10.41 FTEs. The monetary valuation based on an estimate of the cost of access work done voluntarily if acquired on the market, in accordance with usual practices, makes it possible to achieve a total value of €441k. »

In the regulation does not specify how identified or valued "voluntary contributions in kind". Yet how to make a commitment visible without at the foot of the profit and loss account, consider it a merchant job.

There are, however, other ways to read the Pauline. The first step, to make visible the importance of This may be to explain what these 18 950 hours.

Activity the most important is the "short term volunteers", for 6,189 hours, or 32.7% of the total number of volunteers. These activities are mainly related to care tasks in the field of Forges, from the kitchen to DIY through the garden and the Clean up. In the daily organization of the place, this work is essential to ensure quality reception conditions.

Organization of collective life, Common Life, represents 4,771 hours, i.e. 25.2% of volunteers. The opportunity to immerse yourself in this life collective, so dear for the realization of the social object of The association relies heavily on this commitment.

The of the democratic bodies of the association represents 1471 7.7 per cent of the volunteer work is divided into General Assembly (630 hours), to the Boards of Directors (573 hours), and the Bureaux (269 hours). These amounts are supplement by the different bodies less common than the Campus set up (ethical, academic, pedagogical committees etc.), representing 793 hours or 4.2% of the total. Finally, work pro bono of lawyers, and gratuitous interventions in training complements the table.

But Most importantly, behind these figures are 250 people whose stories have, at least a few hours this year, crossed the the association. How to value these money commitments for what they are? Our accounts are running around our financial solvency, hence the equivalence with merchant work, but we make sure that volunteers find sufficient value in their commitment to This one lasts?

Green accounting proposes, if we consider that to make visible how continue to ensure these commitments. And, if the tales of our collective history will not be presented in this format at the General Assembly, it is a concern that we Try to integrate into management. Setting up the schedule "short-term volunteers" to enable access to training, for example. But let's do it. Enough? For, each having his personal relationship to the It is by changing the whole system that we will be able to really become accountants of what really matters.