Volunteering in the United Kingdom

Introduction

Part I Frameworks

1 Concepts and definitions: hunting Snarks and 'mapping volunteerland'
2 Trends in voluntary action

Part II Contours

Introduction to Part II
3 Diversity and inequality in voluntary action
4 Core and periphery
5 Community-level variations in voluntary action: places don't volunteer, people do
6 Circumstances, habits and trajectories: journeys into and through volunteering

Part III Impacts

Introduction to Part III
7 Do not expect miracles: the impacts of voluntary action
8 Volunteering, employability and policy
9 Volunteering, health and well-being
10 Volunteering and civic engagement

Part IV Changing contexts

Introduction to Part IV
11 Demographic change, economic circumstances and attitudes to volunteering
12 Cultivating and conserving the spirit of service
13 COVID-19 and voluntary action

Conclusions: Beveridge and the spirit of service
References
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volunteering; voluntary action; civil society; voluntarism; social policy; Third sector; civic engagement; social capital; voluntary sector; inequality