Responses
to November 2004 Hot Topic
Australian
Observations: An interview with Linda Graff
Linda
Graff with Andy
Fryar
Response posted on 11th November 2004 by Margaret
Guy, Education Coordinator of Sisters of Charity Outreach,
Sydney, NSW, Australia
One
of the parts from Linda Graff's response regarding
her visit to Australia that I resonated with was:
"changing demographics of the volunteer labour
pool, increasing demands for accountability in the
voluntary sector, and increasing expectations that
volunteers will supplement other service delivery
mechanisms. A wide variety of wider social trends
are also influencing the shape of volunteering, including,
for example, technology, demographic shifts, economic
shifts, changes in government spending and the downloading
by governments of essential services into the voluntary
sector."
We
have a mix of volunteer recruits-those retired and
those part time working and it's a chellenge to blend
both in some cases.The lack of gov funds is also an
issue, and the contiual challenge of the OH &
S updating re risk assessment and cost of insurance.
I'm sure these are all issues with other volunteer
organisations.
It's
not too late ~ let's hear what you think!
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