Dedicated volunteers, worth £23bn a year in economic value, run libraries, maintain parks and staff hospital receptions, but more are still needed.
Volunteers’ Week starts on Thursday and there will be hundreds of events across the UK to showcase the contribution of volunteers to our society, from youth work in Penzance to dog rescue in Ayrshire.
The mood will be celebratory and rightly so, but there should also be pause for thought. Volunteering does not appear to be growing, possibly at all and certainly not in the way it must if it is to go some way to filling the yawning gaps carved in our public services by austerity cuts.
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