About the Vision for Volunteering
The Vision for Volunteering is a movement to create a diverse, innovative, ambitious, equitable and person-centred future for volunteering.
The Vision for Volunteering sets out a view of what volunteering needs to look like, and how this will make volunteers feel about their roles, by 2032. Many have already embedded some of the principles outlined by the vision, some are well on their way to doing so, and others may have more work to do.
Vision for Volunteering Themes
Awareness and Appreciation
A future where a culture of volunteering is part of everyone's life and volunteer roles are given the recognition they deserve.
Power
A future where volunteers (and the communities they serve) lead on change that matters to them.
A future where it’s easy for people to give their time and energy to the causes they care about, they feel welcomed, and the benefits are equally distributed.
Equity and Inclusion
A future where collaboration is natural and spontaneous, where people do great stuff together because they want to.
Collaboration
A future where communities aren't afraid to try new things to develop their own, innovative solutions to engaging and supporting volunteers.
Experimentation
Who developed the vision
More than 350 people from more than 300 organisations contributed to the Vision for Volunteering.
What is volunteering and how is is changing?
Volunteering takes many different forms - and not everyone will even use the word! - but the Vision for Volunteering is here for all of them. The Vision has been designed to build on the important and positive changes that volunteering has experienced through recent disruptive events such as the Covid-19 pandemic.