Sketch: The Minister for the Third Sector plays sous-chef in the lead-up to Volunteers' Week

By Paul Jump, Third Sector, 4 June 2008

"This needs some seasoning," declared Phil Hope as he stirred a pan full of vegetables at Newark Mind in Nottinghamshire last week.

Hope was there to help prepare lunch for people attending the charity's resource centre and, in advance of Volunteers' Week (1-7 June), see first hand the contribution volunteers make to supporting people with mental health problems. For all Hope's show of culinary expertise, it didn't take a restaurant critic to...

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