Volunteering drive among minorities

By Indira Das-Gupta, Third Sector Online, 17 December 2007

The Media Trust and volunteering website www.do-it.org.uk are launching a campaign to encourage people from the Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Chinese communities to volunteer.

It's All About U hopes to succeed where more mainstream campaigns have failed and to boost volunteering among these groups. Government studies have shown that volunteering tends to be lower among ethnic minorities, although this varies from group to group. It's All About U, which runs until the end of...

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