This seminar was the third in a series of seminars focusing on volunteering in a fair society organised by IVR in partnership with the ESRC and Birkbeck University. This event explored how individuals and communities can most effectively make their voices heard. Barnardo's gave a presentation entitled 'Win, win, win? A critical perspective on student volunteering'. Past presentations from the Institute of Volunteering Research website can be found at the following location - http://www.ivr.org.uk/ivr-events/ivr-past-events

1. ‘Win, win, win? A critical perspective
on student volunteering’
Thursday 17th March 2011, 13.15pm – 16.30pm
NCVO Conference Suite, Regent’s Wharf, London

2. Win, Win, Win????
•Volunteering Groupthink
•Anecdotal
•Deliberately provocative
•Recommendations

3. What do students
actually achieve?
•Is doing ‘good stuff’ enough?
•Service provision background
outcomes/PBR/wider trends
•Funding/Fundraising issues
•Training, support and focus

4. Has the golden age gone?
Post V, investment in students and wider
volunteering orgs eg timebank
More potential volunteers out there
Student fees
Terrible economic climate
Answers…..
Student led, well supported, expectations
of performance

5. Are students the future of
volunteering?
Are they a viable resource for
the future?
Spring waterfall
Youth trends – ‘trying on’
causes
Results of economic forces

6. Two Stories

7. How the best do it….
Cultures of volunteering
embedded
Students advisors, well funded
and resourced
Practitioners orgs have strong
volunteer managers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=WBQXf8noY1w