Research Bulletins

Summaries of research undertaken by the Institute

• Volunteering and employment: What is the link for unemployed volunteers? PDF

• Monitoring volunteers: a guide to collecting and using data PDF
• Volunteers in sport: assessing the impact PDF
• Working in volunteer managment PDF
• Organising volunteer management PDF
• Volunteering to lead: a study of leadership within small volunteer-led groups PDF
• The impact of public policy on Volunteering in Community-based organisations PDF
• Retention and succession planning within further education governance
• Active learning: Understanding volunteering among Open University students PDF
• Attitudes to diversity among governors in further education colleges PDF
• Unlocking the Potential? Reviewing The Wildlife Trusts’ project to strengthen volunteering (PDF)
• Recruitment and Diversity among FE Governors - PDF
• Volunteering in UK Hospices (A survey commissioned by Help the Hospices) PDF
• The Economics of Hospice Volunteering (A study commissioned by Help the Hospices) PDF
• Community Investment: The impacts of employee volunteering at Barclays Bank (available to view as a PDF document
• Generation V - Young people speak out on volunteering
• Volunteering for All? Exploring the link between volunteering and social exclusion (available to view as a PDF document)
• VIVA - The volunteer investment and value audit: a self help guide (PDF)
  A guide for organisations on how to use VIVA
• Volunteering for mental health findings of a survey of volunteering by people with experience of mental ill health
• A choice blend - What volunteers want from organisation and management
  This report highlights the important fact that volunteers do not want volunteering to feel too regimented and constricting
• UK Wide Evaluation of the Millennium Volunteers Programme
  Research carried out by the Institute for the Department of Education and Skills (please note this is an external link to a PDF document on the DFES site)
• Age discrimination and volunteering
  Research looking at the reasons given for having upper age limits for reasons
• Public sector support of volunteering: an audit
  Research into national and local government support for volunteering
• Volunteering in the NHS
  A report of a survey looking at the nature and extent of volunteering in the NHS
• Issues in volunteer management: A report of a survey
  A survey of volunteer managers looks at issues such as whether there are formal procedures for volunteer involvement and diversity
• Valuing volunteers in Europe
  A comparative study of the Volunteer Investment and Value Audit (VIVA) in 3 European countries. VIVA has been devised as a technique for measuring the economic value of volunteers
• National Survey of Volunteering
  Facts and figures on the nature and extend of volunteering in the UK
• What young people want from volunteering
  What attracts young people to volunteer and what deters them?
• Potential of a lifetime
  Study of Older Volunteers in 25 Organisations