The Being Young in Scotland survey results have recently been published.

The findings show that whilst perceptions of volunteering are largely positive, there remains a gap in terms of its relationship to good citizenship. Amongst school aged children, volunteering seems to have become mor...

As Scotland’s Centre for Excellence, Volunteer Development Scotland is playing a key part in the forthcoming Research Conference on Voluntary Action: Volunteering Counts, which is taking place in Manchester on 1st and 2nd March 2010.

The research conference will explore ho...

The Hour Show on STV ran a volunteering feature this week. You can watch some of the clips online using the links below.

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The IiV standard has been revised and now consists of 9 indicators and 46 practices. The overall purpose and content of the standard has not changed. There have simply been minor changes in wording and some reor...

The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the MBE for volunteer groups, was created in 2002 to recognise the outstanding contributions made by voluntary organisations in local communities across the UK.

To date, 750 groups (Read More...

This Charter sets out the key principles on which volunteering is organised and how good relations between paid staff and volunteers are built. It has been developed jointly by Volunteering England (VE) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and has been endorsed by the wider volunteering and trade un...

A big thank you to all our members who attended our Volunteering Assembly and AGM event held in the Scottish Parliament on 5th December 2009.  The event was very well attended and we had a great response to discussion during 'Question Time' and to the debate ...

Recent research shows that volunteering dramatically improves life expectancy and vitality more than any other activity. So what better way is there to start the year with a resolution to get yourself involved i...

New research on environmental volunteering has been added to the research publications page of the VDS website.

The first set of papers is from a panel session at the NCVO Researching the Voluntary Sector conference that VDS ran alongside the Institute for Volunteering Research (IVR) an...

Volunteering Counts will provide a high profile platform for academics,
practitioners and policy makers from across the UK to debate issues such as:

• How to capture the value and impact of volunteeri...