By grouping opportunities into an event, volunteers who are simply interested in volunteering on the event, and not so interested in which role they perform, can select the event from their search bar.
You can also use the events page to create a public facing webpage to advertise your event and the volunteer opportunities taking place within the event. If a volunteer goes to this webpage they can see a branded Events webpage containing all the information surrounding the event including documents to download (e.g. maps, forms to bring on the day etc.). At the bottom of the page they can see a list of all the opportunities that are linked to that event.
This means that if you are advertising an event, you can include a Volunteer Now! link which will direct volunteers directly to the relevant opportunities.
How To Group Opportunities Into An Event
You can watch a video explaining how the EVENTS feature work by going to:
When you create an opportunity there is an option which says [ADMIN MENU]OPPORTUNITY PART OF A LARGER EVENT? if you select YES it will allow you to group the opportunity to either an existing event (using the drop down) or to a newly created event (by entering the name of the new event on the right).
The name, details and images of an event can be edited at any time by going to [ADMIN MENU] OPPORTUNITIES AND PROVIDERS > OPPORTUNITY EVENTS from the menu.