A year already. On September 14, 2024, on the sidelines of the athletes parade on the Champs-Élysées which marked the end of the Olympic period, Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of a national sports holiday, which will be celebrated each year on this precise date. The following month, the draft sports budget, however, had a drop of almost 12 %. But the desire for sport of the French seems to be up. This is evidenced by the number of licensees, who continues to grow.
And with them, the needs of clubs increase. That’s good, in addition to the growth of practice, interest in volunteering, essential on a daily basis, also seems to benefit from a small Jo. This is what a survey of the Winvolve cabinet, carried out by the Institutway Institute, reveals that we reveal in preview.
“I have a carpenter dad who wants to set up a tavern”
If only 23 % of respondents declare that they are dismissed in a club, 45 % of them say they are “ready, in the future, to give some time to help a club or a sports association of their commune”. 12 % already do it, 9 % would like to do it more, and 24 % would be ready to do more “if it is punctual”.
“When we organized our tournament, we found a hundred volunteers without problem. But to have long-term volunteers, it is more complicated, “confirms Éric Husson, president of the Ris-Orangis rugby club (Essonne), which is based on a base of a dozen faithful, among which more and more women.
Many clubs have their volunteer base, the involvement of which has been reinforced by the success of the Games. At the Pontault-Combault Judo Club (Seine-et-Marne), it was above all the rise in Pro League (French Mixed Professional Team Championship) which has expanded the workforce. But it is always support for young categories that requires many volunteers.
“We necessarily need more people,” says Kamel Benbihi, director of the Red Star Red Star Rugby school in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), who has 180 children from the age of 3 to juniors. Even two hours a month, it’s already good. This year, new parents have arrived, and it is not specially due to the gold medal at the Olympic Games. Many do not know what they want or can do. »»
In his club, we try to optimize the free time proposed by the parents: “The most essential is the way the volunteers are federated,” explains Kamel Benbihi. I have a carpenter dad who wants to set up a tavern, and that’s fine. It is by seeing the development of their child that parents decide to invest a little more. With us, it works very hard. I know that tomorrow, I can call any one, they will answer 98 %. »»
Fabian, volunteer at the Olympic Games who became a volunteer in a hockey club
Fabian Tosolini, he fell into the pot of sport from an early age. Since his 13 years, where he helped his father for the Telethon, he feels the need to commit, with the Paris Games as apotheosis, where he was one of the 45,000 volunteers. The Olympic Games pushed her to give his time for sport: Eden’s dad, 8, is a volunteer at the Saint-Maur hockey club to take care of his “little guy” and his friends.
A desire to help shared by many of his voluntary colleagues from the Olympic Games, he says. “We are constituting an association of Olympic and Paralympic volunteers,” smiles the interested party. I meet a lot of people who discovered living together and wish to continue this state of mind. ” Most of them will be in Cortina and Milan next winter, and are already targeting the 2030 Alps and Brisbane 2032.
