Research on volunteering in Northern Ireland

Its all about time report

The Department decided to conduct research into volunteering to help inform the development of its volunteering strategy. The Voluntary and Community Unit funded the Volunteer Development Agency to undertake research and produce a report. In September 2007 the Volunteer Development Agency published the It's all about time report which looked a volunteering within the population of Northern Ireland and from the perspective of organisations within the voluntary and community sector.

The Volunteering Strategy Steering Group helped identify four possible themes for a volunteering strategy:

We decided to conduct a series of workshops with volunteers and volunteer involving organisations and with other stakeholders and interested parties. The findings from the workshops have been published in the following reports: