volunteering Articles

It’s not just ‘big society’ advocates that are bigging up volunteering: the whole Olympic experience has put what we do for each other – not just in sport – at the heart of policymaking for some time to come. As the Lords reform marathon stumbles to an early finish...

Compulsory national community service could become a genuine exemplar of the 'big society’, by Robert Williams Calls for national service have been a constant theme ever since the last national serviceman put away his boots in 1963. Twenty years ago there were also...

The chief executive of a charity which organises business mentors to work with struggling charities and social enterprises felt let down when he read the sting in the tail of the Social Action Fund application form. By sponsoring a diversity of innovative approaches...