London: Community Service Volunteers (CSV) and Volunteering England have both been appointed by the UK's Home Office to run the campaign to promote and support Year of the Volunteer 2005.  Read article

Thousands of volunteers are being asked to don Santa suits and running shoes and help break a yuletide world-record for charity this Christmas.  Read article

London: Charities are signalling their confidence in the future of the voluntary sector by employing more staff than ever before, according to a new voluntary sector salary survey.  Read article

Make a Difference Day – the UK’s largest annual day of volunteering – took place recently and with this in mind, County Air Ambulance (CAA) - the charity rapid response paramedic service is hoping that more people will get involved with volunteering for its life saving service.  Read article

A new youth volunteering framework cannot work without an overhaul of the benefits system, Ian Russell will tell Home Secretary David Blunkett and Chancellor Gordon Brown. Russell, who heads a Government commission on youth volunteering, will urge them to relax benefit regulations that can inhibit young people from becoming volunteers.  Read article

London: A record-breaking 100,000 people are expected to take part in the UK’s biggest ever day of hands-on volunteering tomorrow, 30 October.  Read article

A voluntary scheme aimed at bringing treatment to heart attack victims as quickly as possible is being launched in Needham Market.  Read article

A grassroots rebellion is threatening to tear the Alzheimer's Society apart. Annie Kelly talks to volunteers who fear a 'top down' shakeup will divorce the charity from its founding principles  Read article

London: Reef Doctor, a UK-based environmental organization, is seeking a volunteer to run their diving operations in Madagascar.  Read article

Young people are to be given a say in a nationwide plan to get more 16 to 25-year-olds to volunteer, it was announced today. The commission on youth volunteering, announced by the chancellor, Gordon Brown, in his last budget, has been charged with drawing up the national framework, although the chancellor has previously advocated a scheme where young people would be paid a living allowance to spend a "gap year" working in the community. Ministers have cited the US Americorps programme as a model.  Read article