Online communities present opportunities for voluntary groups to engage with new audiences and to build powerful new networks, writes Megan Griffith.  Read article

Make history! Volunteer for Christian Aid's 11-week, 1,000-mile march for climate justice, from Northern Ireland to London on 14 July 2007. The organization is urging the government to cut the country's carbon emission by 5 per cent.  Read article

Volunteering England's Mark Restall explores whether ulterior motives in volunteer work should be lamented or embraced.  Read article

London, UK: Immigrants should do community work to help them settle before being granted UK citizenship, Chancellor Gordon Brown has said.  Read article

London, UK: To reverse antagonism towards traditional democratic practices and institutions, local politicians must move beyond consumer satisfaction and public consultation to more deliberative and participatory politics such as volunteering, says a new booklet ‘Individual Pathways in Participation’.  Read article

London, UK: Volunteering is increasingly centred on the volunteers' benefits according to an online survey released by Volunteering England (VE), the national development agency for volunteering in the UK.  Read article

London, UK: The pressures of getting on the property ladder and holding on to a good job are preventing professionals in their 30s and 40s from taking time out to volunteer in developing countries.  Read article

London, UK: Around 700 volunteer and community organizations will share a £23.9 million pot of government grants, Care Services Minister Ivan Lewis has announced. This will fund the Health Department's volunteer-related projects that support high quality health and social care in England.   Read article

The revised legal framework for the Voluntary Organisations Act and the amendments to the Civil Code were discussed during Tuesday’s parliamentary session. The Voluntary Organisations Act describes an organisation as being a group of people who share a common goal and vision. Such groups may come together for philanthropic, social or private purposes.  Read article

New research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, highlights the tensions that voluntary organisations face between working to support refuges arriving in Britain and the rules surrounding government funding for their work.  Read article