ChangeThinking with SmithMartin

Category: Volunteer

Continuing to reflect on happiness and social capital

The Office for National Statistics have this month (May 2017) just published another edition of the research generated by The Social Capital Project. A featured article from our archive…updated 7th September 2021 The…

Books for a school in the Philippines

Books Go Walkabout have recently sent parcels of books to the Philippines with parents from Kellett Care, delivering social projects for Kellett School, Hong Kong. Committee members and parents are travelling to the…

Tailor Made: How do community groups improve society?

  Research from the Community Development Foundation shows that vital contributions from small community groups are making huge benefits nationally to society. Today sees the launch of a research project ‘Tailor Made: how…

Volunteering in Children’s Centres

Children’s Centres and Volunteering is just the start… (Image courtesy of Pleasent Valley Children’s Centre) What better way is there for parents to get involved in their local Children’s Centre than through volunteering…

Creating the right zone

We have been doing a lot of work recently on the creation of good governance structures for a variety of charitable and social enterprise organisations. Policies and process play a large part in…

Big Society

The wonderful vision of a Big Society where people help each other, not for reward but just because they can. In some places where this is happening through volunteering and support groups you…