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Talking about volunteering

Submitted by paddaniels on Thu, 04/10/2007 - 9:51am.
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Last Friday Baroness Julia Neuberger was on BBC Radio Five Live with Simon Mayo talking about her work as Champion for Volunteering for Gordon Brown's Government. The conversation covered many issues in volunteering such as expenses, recognition and why people volunteer. It's interesting to hear her views.




You can download the interview here [9.24 MB 26.55 mins].

It would be nice if our

Submitted by Kate Bowgett on Fri, 05/10/2007 - 9:18am.
It would be nice if our 'champion' of volunteering actually knew enough about volunteering to be able to say that the man who rang in was wrongly advised by the Job Centre, and that he already can volunteer for more than 16 hours a week, and be paid expenses!  It's great that she does seem to aknowledge volunteer management as important, but as with the previous 'contract' cock up I'm worried that there's no attention to detail.
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