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Half a dozen companies have become founding partners in a UK government
initiative aimed at creating a million new community volunteers aged
between 16 and 25.
ITV, KPMG, MTV, Sky, Tesco and T-Mobile will lead efforts to ‘revolutionize youth volunteering’. They will set up volunteering opportunities themselves but will also work with the government and voluntary groups to start schemes and provide funding for existing ones.
This implements the main recommendation of the Russell Commission, set up by the government in May 2004 to find ways of developing a national framework that will ‘make volunteering commonplace among young people’.
The companies will work through a new charity, called v, which intends to find £50million ($92.5m) of private sector support over three years, with the government supplying a further £50m of matched funding.
Barclays, BT, Channel 4, Diageo, Emap, Flextech Television, HSBC, JPMorgan, Norwich Union and RWE npower are among other companies that have agreed to become involved.
ITV, KPMG, MTV, Sky, Tesco and T-Mobile will lead efforts to ‘revolutionize youth volunteering’. They will set up volunteering opportunities themselves but will also work with the government and voluntary groups to start schemes and provide funding for existing ones.
This implements the main recommendation of the Russell Commission, set up by the government in May 2004 to find ways of developing a national framework that will ‘make volunteering commonplace among young people’.
The companies will work through a new charity, called v, which intends to find £50million ($92.5m) of private sector support over three years, with the government supplying a further £50m of matched funding.
Barclays, BT, Channel 4, Diageo, Emap, Flextech Television, HSBC, JPMorgan, Norwich Union and RWE npower are among other companies that have agreed to become involved.
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