More than volunteering. active citizenship through youth volunteering

More than volunteering conveys an important message that citizenship knowledge and skills can be
developed through volunteering, but this must be planned. Sir Bernard Crick has commented that:
‘Citizenship involves volunteering but not all volunteering involves citizenship. Some volunteering is
young people being told exactly what to do. They would learn citizenship skills if they were given the
objective and left to find out the needs by discussing amongst themselves and finding out what
information they need in order to achieve those objectives. People left in that way will make mistakes
but so do older people; it is the way we learn.’