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Insight: Politicians and volunteering: what's the big idea?

By Paul Jump, Third Sector, 28 February 2007

Politicians are falling over themselves to extol the virtues of volunteering, but what are the reasons for the deluge of political interest?

In a speech last October, Gordon Brown outlined his vision of the “good society” in which every person regularly gives to charity and every company has an employee volunteering scheme. Describing the population as "a goodwill mountain waiting to be tapped", the Chancellor said he would like to see all...

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