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This represents a person whom is not yet an 'Active' volunteer or staff member, but working through the application process. They will not be able to login to the system until they are set to 'Active', and have their account enabled. Those marked 'Pending' will be displayed along-side 'Active' staff in reports, unless specifically separated by status (eg. when filtered by 'Active' staff & volunteers vs 'Pending' staff & volunteers).
They will be sent reminders & notifications from the system in the same way active staff are sent emails.
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