Volunteering Counts Conference 2010

Volunteering Counts: landmark conference on defining, measuring and valuing volunteering

1st and 2nd March, Manchester

The Institute for Volunteering Research is helping to organise a research conference on volunteering. 'Volunteering Counts' will explore how we measure, record and count volunteers and volunteering.

Through an exciting series of plenary sessions, roundtable discussions, key note presentations, professional development workshops and paper sessions, Volunteering Counts will explore:

* How can we effectively capture the value and impact of volunteering?
* What are the methodological issues and challenges of measuring and counting volunteers?
* How important is the way we define and conceptualise volunteering?

Confirmed speakers and panelists include:

* Eilís Lawlor, New Economics Foundation
* Wendy Osborne, Volunteer Development Agency, NI
* John Ramsey, Age Concern
* Colin Rochester, Roehampton University
* Duncan Scott, Third Sector Research Centre
* George Thomson, Volunteer Development Scotland

Volunteering Counts will be of interest to a wide audience, including researchers, practitioners and policy makers. The full conference programme is available at www.ivr.org.uk/events, where you can book your place. This two-day event is being organised by the UK Volunteering Forum Research Group, a consortium of researchers from the Institute for Volunteering Research (IVR), Volunteer Development Scotland (VDS), Volunteer Development Agency Northern Ireland and Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA).

If you have any questions about the conference please email: Mimmi.Brostromer@volunteeringengland.org, 0207 520 8970.