Put volunteering 'on a par with emergency services'

By Indira Das-Gupta, Third Sector Online, 23 August 2007

Volunteering should be funded through taxes on a "sustained basis" in the same way as the emergency services, according to CSV in a report submitted to the Commission on the Future of Volunteering.

The volunteering charity also wants to see the introduction of 40-year contracts for volunteering projects and a national youth service. The commission, which is chaired by Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Julia Neuberger, is an independent body established in 2006 by the England Volunteering Development Council to develop a long-term strategy...

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