Jun 9, 2016

How is the activity of volunteering changing? #volunteersweek

In today’s guest blog post Sue Kenny shares findings from research about the changing nature and shape of voluntary action and active citizenship is taking with the next generation…

There are many forms that contemporary active citizenship can take. It can be an expression of civic and civil commitment as well as a form of activism.

Similarly, volunteering can be an expression of active citizenship in each of these forms. For example, membership of local council committees is a form of civic commitment; helping out in a community centre is a form of civil commitment and organising a protest march involves the activist form of active citizenship. Volunteering plays an important role in generating social capital through these different ways of participating in society.