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Hmm, maybe you could have a checkbox field that asks "Are you new?", and if the user ticks that checkbox you can show all the other fields that you'd like them to fill up such as name, email, etc?
That way your existing volunteers can just skip that "Are you new" question, but new users will tick it and fill it up like you want