People volunteer for all manner of reasons and roughly half of the population do so at some point in their lives. While that might seem like a lot of people, equally it means there’s a lot of people choosing not to participate. Dig a little deeper into the numbers and it becomes apparent that around a fifth of those who volunteer do two-thirds of all the volunteering work. Dig some more and you hit the problem of an ageing population with its potential impact on volunteer numbers going forward.
So it’s timely that the Scottish Government has developed this framework.
