Volunteering Counts

Landmark conference on defining, measuring and valuing volunteering
The Institute for Volunteering Research is helping to organise a research conference on volunteering. ‘Volunteering Counts’ will explore how we measure, record and count volunteers and volunteering. Through a series of panel session, key note presentations and workshops, Volunteering Counts will explore:

• How can we effectively capture the value and impact of volunteering?
• What are the methodological issues and challenges of measuring and counting volunteers?
• How important is the way we define and conceptualise volunteering?

Confirmed speakers and panelists include:

• Eilís Lawlor, New Economics Foundation
• Wendy Osborne, Volunteer Development Agency, NI
• John Ramsey, Age Concern
• Colin Rochester, Roehampton University
• Duncan Scott, Third Sector Research Centre
• George Thomson, Volunteer Development Scotland

For more information about Volunteering Counts and to book your place, please visit http://www.ivr.org.uk/events/. This two-day event is being organised by the UK Volunteering Forum Research Group, a consortium of researchers from the Institute for Volunteering Research (IVR), Volunteer Development Scotland (VDS), Volunteer Development Agency Northern Ireland and Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA).