London Vision for Volunteering

The ‘London Vision for Volunteering’ report features 36 practical and strategic recommendations that will significantly develop volunteering across the capital. This collaboratively produced report using the London’s Lifelines branding, which celebrates London volunteering, has contributions from stakeholders in every single London borough as well as high profile Londoners such as Sir Stephen Fry, Lord Gus O’Donnell, Deputy Mayor of London Dr Debbie Weekes-Bernard, Lewisham Rapper Fekky, Andy Haldane, Margaret Casely-Hayford CBE and a foreword by Chief Scout Dwayne Fields.

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The London Vision for Volunteering initiative was established in 2024 to collaboratively produce a plan to tackle this decline in volunteering. The programme has been led by volunteering expert Dominic Pinkney, from not-for-profit social enterprise Works4U, and has been overseen by the London Volunteering Strategy Group. Volunteer stakeholders from all sectors (private, public and voluntary) as well as Londoners have given their input to produce the recommendations on a wide range of volunteering topics such as safeguarding, impact, funding, employee volunteering and many more.

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Project lead and report author Dominic Pinkney said, ‘London has never had a plan to develop volunteering before and I am proud to say we have one now that has been produced through a genuinely collaborative process with Londoners in every single borough providing input. The 36 recommendations together do not just form a blueprint for significantly developing volunteering but will reframe how we all perceive volunteering so as to more accurately reflect its importance in society. Although the report is London focused most of the recommendations apply to the rest of the UK as well.’

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