Posted on November 1st, 2010 by Veronique Jochum in Archived related news
Tagged as: Big Society, motivations, statistics, volunteering
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On 11 October NCVO and the Third Sector Research Centre jointly organised a seminar that aimed to explore the evidence base for three of the key areas (participation, service delivery and funding) behind the Big Society agenda and examine the implications for the voluntary and community sector and government.

All the presentations, session outlines and discussion notes are now available via googledocs: http://bit.ly/bigsocietyevidenceseminar

Unsurprinsingly, I would recommend you reading the documents relating to the session on participation, including Colin Rochester’s outline ‘Participation: how does qualitative help us?’ which focuses on motivations and looks at some of the reasons why people participate.

Also worth a read is John Mohan’s outline ‘What do volunteering statistics tell us about the prospects for the Big Society?’ which further develops some of the ideas he presented in a recent article on the civic core.

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