Critics have said that overseas volunteering hardly have sustainable impact on developing communities.  Isn't it time to encourage international volunteers to channel their skills and time toward local development projects?  Read article

United Kingdom: Some of the leading stars from Coronation Street will join the plot which aims to help boost the Year of the Volunteer Campaign.  Read article

London, UK: The increasing number of students taking gap years has led to a sharp rise in companies exploiting their desire to find volunteer work abroad, according to the Voluntary Service Overseas organization (VSO).  Read article

For nearly 10 years, Renee Gallop has given her time to the Lambeth branch of the charity Victim Support, in south-east London. She has helped thousands overcome the trauma of crime - everything from pickpocketings to murder - and all for free.   Read article

London, UK: One of UK's leading volunteering organizations has recently said that London's successful bid to host the Olympics in 2012 will provide a massive boost to the sector.  Read article

London: Scope, a UK-based volunteer organization, is conducting two surveys on disabilism in volunteering, one for people with disabilities and another for volunteer managers working in project with and for disabled people.  Read article

“Make Poverty History”, a UK-based campaign to raise awareness on how to end poverty, has attracted the support of millions of individuals within and outside the country. The campaign’s popularity, as most of its detractors argue, lies on endorsement of entertainment celebrities (led by musician Bob Geldof) and not because people are able to grasp the essentials on how or why they should fight world poverty. Julian Baggini, of UK daily The Guardian, asks does it matter if most of the “ordinary people” don't really know what they're campaigning or volunteering for?  Read article

After UK concluded its Volunteers’ Week celebrations, the country is taking stock. In Josie Appleton’s article in Spiked, an online publication, she writes why politics and volunteering don’t mix, arguing that the spontaneity and spirit of volunteering is lost because “the new brand of doing good talks the jargonized language of bureaucracy.”  Read article

London: UK's Volunteers' Week was launched this week, 1-6 June, with the aim of increasing further the record levels of people participating in voluntary work in Britain.  Read article

London: A research carried out by KPMG/YouGov in the UK has found that 45 per cent of those who do not volunteer blame lack of time, not apathy, for preventing them getting involved in volunteering activities.  Read article