February 2009

One of the UK’s biggest charity retailers is turning to the prison service to recruit volunteers to help raise vital funds through its shops.

The dichotomy between the well-known popular party town and the ordinary lives of Blackpool residents has been revealed by local volunteers in Bloomfield Talks; a year-long oral history project commissioned by Blackpool Council

Charities and voluntary organisations are being offered training to help them adapt to the challenges of the current economic climate.

This month Nick Ockenden, Head of Research at IVR, reports on some of the latest findings

It is shaping up to be an exciting year, with Down House near Biggin Hill in Kent, Darwin's home and where he wrote The Origins of Species, becoming a World Heritage Site with the support of its volunteers, both in the house and gardens

This month John Ramsey, from the Association of Volunteer Managers, discusses the first in a regular series of topics