{"id":18685,"date":"2018-03-16T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=18685"},"modified":"2018-03-16T10:00:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T10:00:38","slug":"does-volunteering-really-do-you-good-heres-a-thought-provoking-article-from-ncvo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2018\/03\/does-volunteering-really-do-you-good-heres-a-thought-provoking-article-from-ncvo\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Volunteering really do you good? Here\u2019s a thought provoking article from NCVO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NCVO point out that it sounds like common sense: \u2018doing good\u2019 makes you feel good, can improve your skills and form new connections with your community. But does it stack up? What does the evidence really say?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncvo.org.uk\/2018\/03\/09\/how-does-volunteering-impact-volunteers-five-things-to-consider\/\">Their article published recently<\/a> is worth a read and then worth thinking about.<\/p>\n<p>The article is based on recent research (see the article for links to the research) but they consider 5 things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Be careful when talking about causation. Does volunteering really cause outcomes?<\/li>\n<li>Volunteering can\u2019t be a silver bullet for coming our of unemployment<\/li>\n<li>But feeling appreciated and building relationships really is important<\/li>\n<li>Time given does have an impact but we just don\u2019t know how much<\/li>\n<li>And finally, motivations for volunteering matter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Well worth you spending the time looking at the article and glancing through the research briefing yourself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncvo.org.uk\/2018\/03\/09\/how-does-volunteering-impact-volunteers-five-things-to-consider\/\">The article is on the NCVO website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-18685\" data-postid=\"18685\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-18685 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCVO just published an article looking at five things to consider when assessing the impact of volunteering. For any organisation hosting volunteers this is a thought provoking article. Read on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[128,152],"tags":[155],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-4Rn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18685"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18697,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18685\/revisions\/18697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}