{"id":9877,"date":"2015-06-23T10:54:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T09:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=9877"},"modified":"2015-06-23T10:54:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T09:54:55","slug":"volunteers-are-fantastic-not-the-cheap-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2015\/06\/volunteers-are-fantastic-not-the-cheap-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers are fantastic &#8211; not the cheap option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the follow up to our support for Volunteer\u2019s Week, here\u2019s an article worth reading:<\/p>\n<p>Oonagh Aitken, chief executive of Volunteering Matters says &#8216;<u>awarding public sector contracts<\/u> to volunteering groups is all well and good, but it needs to be properly thought through &#8211; and costed&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/lifestyle\/11667763\/Volunteers-are-fantastic-but-its-wrong-for-Martyn-Lewis-to-suggest-they-are-always-the-cheaper-choice.html\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/lifestyle\/11667763\/Volunteers-are-fantastic-but-its-wrong-for-Martyn-Lewis-to-suggest-they-are-always-the-cheaper-choice.html<\/a><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-9877\" data-postid=\"9877\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-9877 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from Volunteers Week, we re looking at why volunteering isn&#8217;t the cheap and easy way out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[128,37,152],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-2zj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9877"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9878,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9877\/revisions\/9878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}