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1674555

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department is taking steps to support volunteering through the Big Help Out campaign.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4801
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2023 answer text <p>Volunteering is vital for society and the Government recognises this. It benefits volunteers and the organisations involving them and has transformational impacts on beneficiaries and their communities.</p><p>My department is funding and supporting the launch of the 2024 Big Help Out, following the success of the inaugural day of community volunteering to mark the Coronation of His Majesty the King and Her Majesty The Queen, held on 8 May 2023. The Big Help Out aims to raise awareness of volunteering and to provide opportunities for people to support their communities.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 06/12/2023 12:57:40 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1640437

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the findings of the report Time Well Spent 2023 published by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations on 2 May 2023, whether she is taking steps to help improve satisfaction levels among volunteers.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	186835
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>Volunteering is vital for society and the Government recognises this. It benefits volunteers and the organisations involving them and has transformational impacts on beneficiaries and their communities. Government aims to remove barriers to getting people involved.</p><p>Government sees the experience and satisfaction of volunteers as a key part of unlocking the benefits of volunteering. We are supporting the volunteering sector’s Vision for Volunteering initiative, which focuses on improving the volunteer experience, including an investment of £609,000.</p><p>We will consider the full findings of the Time Well Spent survey when the report is published in June 2023 by NCVO.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 05/06/2023 14:05:10 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1504545

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps she has taken to ensure the fair treatment of volunteers within the voluntary and charitable work sector.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45984
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>Volunteering is critical to a vibrant and resilient civil society; it benefits volunteers and the organisations involving them and has transformational impacts on beneficiaries and their communities.</p><p>This Government is committed to enabling people to take part in all forms of social action, including volunteering. We know the profound benefit that volunteering has on the individual, on communities and on society.</p><p>Volunteers do not have a contract of employment as a volunteer, so do not have the same rights as an employee or worker, and are not placed under the same obligations. However, they will usually be given a volunteer agreement that explains:</p><ul><li><p>the level of supervision and support they will get</p></li><li><p>what training they will get</p></li><li><p>whether they are covered under the organisation’s employer or public liability insurance</p></li><li><p>health and safety issues</p></li><li><p>any expenses the organisation will cover.</p></li></ul><p>The volunteer agreement is not a contract, but it is a good way of setting out what volunteers can expect from the organisation they are volunteering for. You can find information about this at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/volunteering/pay-and-expenses" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/volunteering/pay-and-expenses</a>. The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) also has information on<a href="https://knowhownonprofit.org/people/volunteers/keeping/treating" target="_blank"> volunteers’ legal status</a> and guidance on solving volunteer problems.</p><p>If a volunteer believes they are treated unfairly, there is recourse available to them through a variety of means. Volunteers for charities are able to raise concerns to the Charity Commission. The Health and Safety Executive, Disclosure and Barring Service, and the Information Commissioner's Office are also useful points of contact.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/09/2022 07:43:34 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1467250

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to tackle potential barriers to volunteering; and whether she plans to make funding available to tackle those barriers.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
	tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	11864
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises that volunteering is critical to a vibrant and resilient civil society; it benefits volunteers and the organisations involving them and has transformational impacts on beneficiaries and their communities.</p><p>As a department, we are focused on simplifying routes into volunteering and seeking to make volunteering more inclusive.</p><p>Through the £7.4 million Volunteering Futures Fund, volunteering opportunities are being created to remove barriers to volunteering in arts, culture, sports, civil society, youth and heritage sectors. Young people, people with disabilities and those experiencing loneliness will be given the opportunity to volunteer and help others. DCMS is investing £6.25 million in the fund, together with £1.17 million provided by matched funders.</p><p>Our delivery partners for this programme are the Arts Council England, NHS Charities Together and Pears Foundation. The 19 Arts Council England funded projects will work with over 160 partners across heritage, arts, libraries, festival, community and sport organisations to increase accessibility to volunteering.</p><p>We are also supporting the development of the sector-led Vision for Volunteering, through which an ambitious ten year action plan is being developed to improve the volunteer experience. One of the five themes of the Vision is ‘Equity and Inclusion’, in recognition of the barriers that some people face to participating in volunteering.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 10/06/2022 11:29:12 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1360655

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2021
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to encourage volunteering during the recovery from the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	58400
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2021 answer text <p>DCMS is focusing its role as a steward of the sector, working collaboratively to improve access to volunteering by removing long-standing barriers, some of which have been exacerbated or exposed by COVID-19.</p><p>As part of our work to investigate how and the extent to which COVID-19 has impacted on volunteering in England, we produced a report to investigate what drives demand for volunteers and how this varies over a typical calendar year, as a means of identifying potential issues in the supply of volunteers. This also examined the effect of the pandemic on volunteer supply and demand. *</p><p>We are working with the voluntary and community sector to develop a Vision for Volunteering, which will be a clear and actionable 10 year plan to simplify access to and experiences of volunteering in England.</p><p>We are also planning to launch a new Volunteering Futures Fund, which will provide new volunteering opportunities for young people and others who experience barriers to volunteering, within DCMS sectors (arts, culture, museums and heritage) as well as in youth, tackling loneliness and place-based community initiatives.</p><p><strong></strong>* <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/research-report-on-the-drivers-in-demand-for-volunteers" target="_blank"><strong>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/research-report-on-the-drivers-in-demand-for-volunteers</strong></a></p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 21/10/2021 16:45:42 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris