December 2008/January 2009

The Hammersmith & Fulham Volunteer Centre (HFVC) has won a coveted national award in recognition of its outstanding and innovative methods of working over the past twelve months.

The British Red Cross has announced the launch of a new online volunteering initiative that will use social networks to create a community of ‘virtual volunteers’ who can support the organisation in their own time.

The Small Charities Coalition's website has been launched at an event hosted by Google at their UK headquarters in London

National Student Volunteering Week 2009 takes place from
Monday February 23rd to Sunday March 1st

In our winter edition as we focus on arts and culture we hear from Abbie Cooke, co-founder of a dynamic new volunteer-involving enterprise called GigArts, Tom Andrews, Chief Executive of People United, and Sara Lee, Projects Director at The Irene Taylor Trust 'Music in Prisons'.

As the UK plunges into the deep, cold waters of recession, must the voluntary and charity sector - in particular volunteering - be dragged down to its doom, too? Nick Cater finds the answers.