Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK
Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK

Author: Irene Hardill

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2022-10-18

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1447367243

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY licence. The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the landscape of voluntary action. Some volunteering projects had to be paused, while others were delivered in different ways, but across all four UK nations large numbers of people began volunteering for the first time. This book provides an overview of the constraints and opportunities of mobilising voluntary action across the four UK nations during the pandemic. Sector experts and academics examine the divergent voluntary action policy frameworks adopted, the state and non-state supported volunteer responses, the changes in the profile of volunteers and the plans to sustain their involvement. This book addresses the urgent policy and practice need for evidence-based considerations to support recovery from the pandemic and to prepare for future emergencies.

Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK
Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK

Author: Irene Hardill

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2022-10-18

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1447367227

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The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the landscape of voluntary action. This book provides an overview of the constraints and opportunities of mobilising voluntary action across the four UK jurisdictions.

Volunteer Involvement
Volunteer Involvement

Author: Jurgen Grotz

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-11-30

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 3031192214

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest theory and practice for volunteer involvement. It represents a milestone for knowledge of how and why volunteers become involved and will be essential reading for practitioners, policy makers and funders. Offering exercises and examples from practice, it introduces concepts for understanding volunteers’ agency and for critically assessing ways in which those who seek to involve volunteers can respond to rapidly changing environments. The authors draw on a combination of theoretical perspectives and practical experiences to develop approaches based on individuals and community strengths and assets, underlining the need for conviviality, respect and enjoyment in volunteer involvement.

COVID-19 and the Voluntary and Community Sector in the UK
COVID-19 and the Voluntary and Community Sector in the UK

Author: James Rees

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2023-06

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1447365518

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The voluntary sector was central to the COVID-19 response: fulfilling basic needs, highlighting new and existing inequalities and coordinating action where the state had been slow to respond. This book curates rigorous academic, policy and practice-based research into the response and adaptation of the UK voluntary sector during the pandemic. Contributions explore the ways the sector responded to new challenges and the longer-term consequences for the sector's workforce, volunteers and beneficiaries. Written for researchers and practitioners, this book considers what the voluntary sector can learn from the pandemic to maximise its contribution in the event of future crises.

Enterprising Care?
Enterprising Care?

Author: Irene Hardill

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1847427219

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What does it mean to be a volunteer in the UK today? This book adds new insights into volunteering from the perspective of the individual, the organisation and the community .

Voluntary Action (Works of William H. Beveridge)
Voluntary Action (Works of William H. Beveridge)

Author: William H. Beveridge

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-11-27

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1317572998

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It is the author’s contention that an abundance of voluntary action outside the citizen’s home, both individually and collectively, for bettering his own and his fellows’ lives, are the distinguishing marks of a truly free society. This volume is a study of how such action can be kept alive in the face of the inevitable development of State action and suggests the new forms which co-operation between the State and voluntary Organizations may take, leaving a maximum of freedom and responsibility to the individual. Voluntary Action is a text of unique value because Beveridge here develops his vision of how a large ‘voluntary action’ sector could function as a type of buffer zone between the state and the market.

Volunteer Involvement in UK Universities
Volunteer Involvement in UK Universities

Author: Jurgen Grotz

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 3031450582

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Providing a comprehensive overview of volunteer involvement in UK universities, this book addresses a distinct and substantive policy and management issue. Offering examples of volunteer involvement with students, staff, alumni and communities from 148 UK Higher Education Institutions, it provides important background to understanding volunteer involvement. It also introduces key concepts for critically assessing ways in which those who seek to involve volunteers can respond to rapidly changing environments. Drawing on a combination of theoretical perspectives and practical experiences the book systematically explores approaches based on the current structures of volunteer involvement in UK universities, which provides accessible insights for Higher Education Institutions into how they can effectively organise volunteer involvement and maximise its societal impact. Developing 10 indicators with measures to evidence universities strategic approaches and achievements in community-university relations, the book offers practical ways to plan, enable, monitor, and assess the impact of volunteer involvement in universities. Jurgen Grotz is a Senior Research Fellow, and the Director of the Institute for Volunteering Research at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Rediscovering Voluntary Action
Rediscovering Voluntary Action

Author: C. Rochester

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2013-11-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781137029447

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Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence has led to a narrow and distorted view of what voluntary action involves and how it is undertaken. This book reasserts the case for a broader view of voluntarism as a unique set of autonomous activities.

Volunteering in the United Kingdom
Volunteering in the United Kingdom

Author: John Mohan

Publisher:

Published: 2024-12-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781526145529

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A comprehensive and original overview of evidence about the patterns and impacts of volunteering. A rigorous, novel and realistic assessment of the contributions of voluntary action to British society, and of the scope for expanding them.

How Britain Loves the NHS
How Britain Loves the NHS

Author: Ellen A. Stewart

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2023-07-05

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1447368894

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What does it mean to love a healthcare system? It is often claimed that the UK population is unusually attached to its National Health Service, and the last decade has seen increasingly visible displays of gratitude and love. While social surveys of public attitudes measure how much Britain loves the NHS, this book mobilises new empirical research to ask how Britain loves its NHS. The answer delves into a series of public practices – such as campaigning, donating and volunteering within NHS organisations – and investigates how attitudes to the NHS shape patient experience of healthcare. Stewart argues that these should be understood as practices of care for, and contestation about the future of, the healthcare system. This book offers a timely critique of both the potential, and the dysfunctions, of Britain’s complex love affair with the NHS.