Young People’s Volunteering

The research team would like to thank all the young people and workers (paid and unpaid)
who took part in this project. Time and time again, the researchers returned home, often
late at night, exhausted but reinvigorated by their visits to projects. They were enthused
and inspired by young people’s own accounts of their volunteering experiences, their
sensitivity to each others’ needs, their commitment to what they were doing, and their
understanding of how they had changed as a result. They were equally impressed by the
workers who encouraged, supported and challenged young people, many with difficult
personal circumstances, to grow and develop through volunteering.