Do all charity CEOs actually realise they are volunteer managers? Dominic Pinkney explains the perhaps contradictory but also essential volunteer management role the CEO needs to carry out with the volunteer trustees who manage the CEO. For an effective high performing board of trustees the CEO needs to carry out good practice volunteer management.
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How hard can it be to create an employee volunteering podcast?
Dominic Pinkney explains how hard it has been to create the new employee volunteering podcast called ‘Days Like These’
Let’s end the myths about employee volunteering
Let’s end employee volunteering myths! Dominic Pinkney writes about myths and false tropes about corporate volunteering.
Launch of #ShoutVolunteering campaign – 7 easy things everyone can do
The launch of #ShoutVolunteering showcases the 7 quick and easy things you can do to shout about volunteering
Is 2026 volunteering’s most important year?
Evidence suggests that in 2026 it is going to be critical to shout about the importance of volunteering to our society. We need to shout that volunteering is not a ‘nice to have‘ but an essential part of how we function and that volunteering will play a key success factor in the plans of national, …
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Volunteering changes similar to changes in television viewing
Volunteering is not declining, it has just changed. Data shows that rates of formal volunteering have been declining across the UK for a few years now, but does this actually mean the desire to volunteer is declining? The short answer is no. Volunteering is not declining but the culture of volunteering has fundamentally and permanently …
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Why promoting volunteering is harder than ever?
It’s very different now compared to 20 years ago. It is harder than ever for voluntary sector organisations, whether an individual volunteer involving organisation (VIO) or a volunteer infrastructure organisation, to promote volunteering to people who might be interested in volunteering. The world was very different twenty years ago. For starters the world of marketing …
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Importance of Volunteering: The Cake Analogy
When describing the importance and, in particular, the perception of the importance of volunteering, my cake analogy has become quite popular. Well, everyone loves cake don’t they? Volunteering is most commonly seen by wider society and decision-makers as a ‘nice to have’, like the icing on the cake of society. People will always say positive …
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My surprise at being the main sponsor for Volunteers’ Week
So this happened… I did not start out the week thinking my not-for-profit social enterprise Works4U would be the main sponsor of Volunteers’ Week. It was not even on my radar. However, a short break from work to make a nice cup of tea and I had an idea. That idea led to me sending …
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London Vision for Volunteering
Since May last year I have led the ‘London Vision for Volunteering‘ programme and in March 2025 we launched the final report and its 36 recommendations. I am so proud of this work. Not just because I think it has produced some great recommendations that act as a blueprint for developing volunteering across the capital, …
