Impact Conference
The national conference on student volunteering and social action.
INSPIRING, INFORMING and LEADING UK STUDENT VOLUNTEERING
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Anjelica is a PhD student at the University of Southampton studying the relationship between government and volunteers and is currently the chair of the Impact Committee.
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Anjelica Finnegan
on 21 February 2012
Some people argue that there is nothing special about student volunteers. Perhaps the activities they take part in do not necessarily differ from other ‘volunteer-types’. However, (and sorry to bore you with statistics) in a recent study Georgina Brewis et.al found that 63% of surveyed students reported to have formally volunteered since they had started university.
This percentage is significantly higher than the national standard with 40% of adults volunteering ...