COLIN ROCHESTER founded the Centre for the Study of Voluntary and Community Activity at Roehamptom University. ANGELA ELLIS PAINE is Director of the Institute for Volunteering Research, UK. STEVEN HOWLETT is Director of the Centre for the Study at Voluntary and Community Activity at Roehampton University, UK. MICHAEL LOCKE is Director of Public Affairs at Volunteering England.
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| List of Tables | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Making Sense of Volunteering: Perspectives, principles and definitions | |
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| Capturing the Diversity of Voluntary Action | |
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| Profiling Voluntary Action: Who does what? | |
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| UK Volunteering in International Perspective | |
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| A Changing Society | |
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| Government and Volunteering: Towards a history of policy and practice | |
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| The Changing Face of Volunteering: Current and future trends | |
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| Motivation and Recruitment: Why and how do volunteers come? | |
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| Rewards and Retention: Why do volunteers stay? | |
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| Issues of Coordination and Management: How can the activities of volunteers be best organised? | |
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| Measuring the Impact of Volunteering | |
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| Changing the Image of Volunteering | |
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| Making Volunteering Inclusive | |
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| Maintaining the Independence of Voluntary Action | |
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| Defending the Spirit of Volunteering from Formalisation | |
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| Voluntary Action in the 21st Century | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
COLIN ROCHESTER has taught and conducted research on voluntary action at the London School of Economics and Roehampton University, UK,nbsp;where he founded the Centre for the Study of Voluntary and Community Activity. His publications include: Juggling on a Unicycle: A Handbook for Small Voluntary Agencies ; and Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy: Perspectives on Change and Choice (with Margaret Harris) . ANGELA ELLIS PAINE is Director of the Institute for Volunteering Research, UK. She has undertaken numerous research projects and consultancies on volunteering including studies of the attitudes of young people to volunteering; barriers to participation; and different cultural concepts of voluntary action. STEVEN HOWLETT is Senior Lecturer at Roehampton University, UK,nbsp;where henbsp;is alsonbsp;Director ofnbsp;the Centre for the Study of Voluntary and Community Activity. He previously worked at the Institute for Volunteering Research. nbsp; META ZIMMECK is an independent research consultant who has previously worked for Volunteering England as its public affairs strategist and head of Secretariat of the Commission on the Future of Volunteering. Before that, she spent six years as Head of the Voluntary and Community Research Section in the Home Office.
COLIN ROCHESTERnbsp;founded the Centre for the Study of Voluntary and Community Activity at Roehamptom University. ANGELA ELLIS PAINE is Director of the Institute for Volunteering Research, UK. STEVEN HOWLETT is Director of the Centre for the Study at Voluntary and Community Activity at Roehampton University, UK. MICHAEL LOCKE is Director of Public Affairs at Volunteering England.
COLIN ROCHESTER has taught and conducted research on voluntary action at the London School of Economics and Roehampton University, UK,nbsp;where he founded the Centre for the Study of Voluntary and Community Activity. His publications include: Juggling on a Unicycle: A Handbook for Small Voluntary Agencies ; and Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy: Perspectives on Change and Choice (with Margaret Harris) . ANGELA ELLIS PAINE is Director of the Institute for Volunteering Research, UK. She has undertaken numerous research projects and consultancies on volunteering including studies of the attitudes of young people to volunteering; barriers to participation; and different cultural concepts of voluntary action. STEVEN HOWLETT is Senior Lecturer at Roehampton University, UK,nbsp;where henbsp;is alsonbsp;Director ofnbsp;the Centre for the Study of Voluntary and Community Activity. He previously worked at the Institute for Volunteering Research. nbsp; META ZIMMECK is an independent research consultant who has previously worked for Volunteering England as its public affairs strategist and head of Secretariat of the Commission on the Future of Volunteering. Before that, she spent six years as Head of the Voluntary and Community Research Section in the Home Office.
COLIN ROCHESTER has taught and conducted research on voluntary action at the London School of Economics and Roehampton University, UK,nbsp;where he founded the Centre for the Study of Voluntary and Community Activity. His publications include: Juggling on a Unicycle: A Handbook for Small Voluntary Agencies ; and Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy: Perspectives on Change and Choice (with Margaret Harris) . ANGELA ELLIS PAINE is Director of the Institute for Volunteering Research, UK. She has undertaken numerous research projects and consultancies on volunteering including studies of the attitudes of young people to volunteering; barriers to participation; and different cultural concepts of voluntary action. STEVEN HOWLETT is Senior Lecturer at Roehampton University, UK,nbsp;where henbsp;is alsonbsp;Director ofnbsp;the Centre for the Study of Voluntary and Community Activity. He previously worked at the Institute for Volunteering Research. nbsp; META ZIMMECK is an independent research consultant who has previously worked for Volunteering England as its public affairs strategist and head of Secretariat of the Commission on the Future of Volunteering. Before that, she spent six years as Head of the Voluntary and Community Research Section in the Home Office.
