Volunteers are central stakeholders in strategic planning because they help deliver the current strategy and are essential to implementing the future one. They contribute practical experience from services, branches, and communities; provide insight into motivation, satisfaction, barriers, and ways of working; participate in consultations through surveys, focus groups, meetings, and stories; and help build ownership and implementation of the final strategic plan. They require basic strategic awareness, reflective practice, communication, community insight, constructive feedback, collaboration, adaptability, implementation discipline, and a learning orientation.