What Do Volunteers Mean When They Say It's "Ready"?

A five-year interview study of tacit judgement across allotments, choirs, sheds, sporting clubs and raffle stalls

The School of Continuous Improvement's Evaluation of Evaluation program spent five years interviewing volunteers and committees across allotments, choirs, sheds, sporting clubs and raffle stalls about what "still usable," "ready," "tended," and "the person you'd ask again" actually mean, then abstracted those judgement-words into the Tacit Judgement Index, now adopted as a scored assessment standard for the School's community-partnership funding round.

@misc{slop_emj5nd,
  author       = {Dagny Okafor and Casimir Beng and Thandiwe Solberg},
  title        = {What Do Volunteers Mean When They Say It's "Ready"?: A five-year interview study of tacit judgement across allotments, choirs, sheds, sporting clubs and raffle stalls},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.emj5nd},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-impact-what-do-club-emj5nd/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Impact report},
}