voluntary organisations, social enterprises and volunteering
voluntary organisations, social enterprises and volunteering
voluntary organisations, social enterprises and volunteering
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The Impact on Older People’s Wellbeing of Leaving Heritage Volunteering
Created: 16/04/2025
News/Events Category: Volunteering
The benefits of volunteering for older volunteers and for the organisations who host them is well-documented. The impact of being obliged to leave volunteering due to age-related conditions, and any challenges that this creates for volunteer managers, are under-researched.
Researchers at Newcastle University have created a study exploring how volunteers and volunteer managers experienced this point in the volunteering lifecycle. Volunteers discussed leaving volunteering in terms of loss but also indicated that forms of personal appraisal and agency were possible, improving the impact of leaving. Volunteer managers discussed how organisational frameworks and the relationships they formed with volunteers shaped their practices. These relationships created a sense of organisational reciprocity which led some managers to exceed the rules in order to sustain people in their volunteering.
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