The Future of Volunteering?
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This document discusses trends in volunteering and the future of volunteering. It notes that while volunteering rates have declined slightly, certain groups such as students and retirees are more likely to volunteer. New forms of volunteering are emerging such as microvolunteering through online platforms. The future of volunteering will require organizations to engage new audiences, adapt to changing expectations of volunteers, and utilize new technologies to expand volunteer opportunities.
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- 1. THE FUTURE OF VOLUNTEERING? @KARLWILDING WWW.VOLUNTEERING.ORG.UK HERITAGE VOLUNTEERING CONFERENCE, APRIL 2018 #HERITAGEVOLUNTEERING2018
- 3. WWW.NCVO.ORG.UK/IMAGES/DOCUMENTS/POLICY_AND_RESEARCH/ PARTICIPATION/NCVO_2017_GETTING_INVOLVED.PDF3
- 4. A CIVIC CORE Source: TSRC (2012)
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- 6. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A VOLUNTEER
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- 18. IF YOU THINK CHANGE IS DIFFICULT…
- 19. …TRY IRRELEVANCE
- 20. THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF DOING GOOD
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Editor's Notes
- This is important: it describes the world as is now, but our challenge is that we are starting to transiton to a world where the millentials are giving smaller amounts of time, not necessarily for the same organisations. Much of my talk is about where next.
- Intro: One of the great things we can use time use data for is to analyse the sequential patterns of participation in different types of activity. We can do this for different groups or different types of day to make meaningful comparisons of how different groups’ time use compares. 2) Here, the initial two plots show the rates of participation in different types of activity through a week day and a weekend day for volunteers who are in employment. 3) Take a look at the shape of the paid employment section of the charts. This shows the percentage of those in employment who are in paid work on a typical weekday reaches around a peak of around 60 percent at about 12pm. This is of course across all week days so part time employment, irregular or unusual working hours, sick days and annual leave will all have an impact. 4) The next two charts show weekdays only for those who are in employment but this time the comparison is between those who have volunteered in the last 4 weeks and those who have not. Link: Where we compare weekday to weekday, the differences are smaller in scale so we have taken a further step to highlight more clearly where participation in different activities differs between volunteers and non-volunteers. We’ve also split this into high and low income groups as we want to understand if there are differences in their lives related to their household income…
- We are not competing against other charities or museums for people’s time. We are competing against the box set.
- It’s not just about the financial crisis though: its about the relentless pressure of demographic (and social) change: a rapidly ageing, more atomised population that will demand greater levels of public services. And that’s before we’ve even got into a discussion about changing expectations. Currently, people on average visit their GP 6 times a year; that compares with roughly 3 times a year 20 years ago.
- Not just charities engage volunteers
- This has been a difficult year for charities in the media Shouldn’t assume that volunteering is immune – particularly if the volunteering experience doesn’t meet the promise
- Fundraising: disintermediation and new intermediaries
- Source: http://designtaxi.com/news/356555/2005-VS-2013-The-Difference-Between-8-Years-As-Seen-At-St-Peter-s-Square/ The two pictures are of the papal inaugeration. Digital has changed everything. Everything. Not just how organisations deliver services, or fundraise, or campaign, but the cultures and values of our stakeholders. Business models everywhere are being disrupted. The rise of ubiquitous, always-on mobile tech means we are always on, in the public eye. And these weapons of mass distraction mean the only thing that’s scarce these days is attention.
- We’re all investors now: shift from altruism to reciprocity and return New breed of social investors: earned not inherited wealth; demand metrics; comfortable with technology and (big) data; want scale and replication These all point to a new wave of doing good based on making a difference
- So, things have been tough; the ‘sector’ may have peaked in size; so what’s going to shape us in coming years? Predictions are always difficult, especially when they’re about the future…
- People want to do good. They don’t care in which sector they do it. So for the time precious, the cash poor, the outcome is the same: if they don’t think that we are using their resource to make the biggest impact, we wont be in the business of doing good. Note this is a relative proposition, not an absolute. It’s no longer good enough to say we do good in the voluntary sector.
- Microvolunteering
- No need to be in situ
- Embed social action into things that people are already doing
- Need to embed volunteering into other activities, see volunteering as serious lesiure
- Good gym another example of social action, this time using technology. The good gym connects runners with isolated older people.
- New types of role – Edward Parr, the human sat nav, wrexham hospital http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2016-04-07/human-sat-nav-encourages-people-to-volunteer-at-hospitals/
- Employer supported volunteering – companies compete for sector agnostic milennials
- I can confidently predict that allotments will be THE next big thing in public policy. I’m calling it right now that we’ll soon have a National Allotments Service. (Thanks to @lewiscoakley for that one) More seriously- this raises the bar in terms of expectations and I fret slightly about our ability to meet these.