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As part of this years Scottish Government #MakeSomeonesDay campaign for St Andrews day we have chosen to highlight our support of the IBBA Girls school and share ways in which you can too.

I’m looking forward to being a guest at the Quarriers Volunteer recognition evening coming up, and also delighted to have been asked to make a contribution to the Quarriers Magazine about my perspective. So I thought I’d write about volunteer recognition.

Matthew Linning, head of research at Volunteer Scotland, shares his thoughts from the recent conference on how to make youth volunteering in Scotland more inclusive.

Morven Maclean of CHAS and Sarah Latto from Shelter Scotland introduce two new guidance documents on impact measurement and investing for success.

Our CEO George Thomson recently completed a 3-month study leave looking into volunteer participation. European Volunteer Centre asked him to share his thoughts and links to the care agenda.

Volunteering. Many of us give our time freely where, and when, we can - whether it be formal or informal. However it seems that people can be a little bit shy in discussing it.

We were lucky enough to attend a prestigious data science event this week which was about celebrating the success of the Data Lab MSc Placement Programme. To our enormous delight data science student, Debbie Maltman, scooped first prize for her fantastic work with us.