News analysis: Volunteering: the spirit of the age?

By Stephen Cook and Rosie Walker, Third Sector, 30 April 2008

Volunteering England's convention found the future looking good.

So deep was the sense of optimism at last week's Volunteering England National Convention in Newcastle that the organisation's chief executive, Justin Davis Smith, borrowed from Harold Macmillan's famous feel-good speech of 1957 and told the delegates: "Volunteering has never had it so good." The optimism stems in part from...

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