The Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) is seeking help to input into a new piece of research which researches volunteering in the historic environment.
BEFS writes:
BEFS is delighted to be involved in managing a piece of research, commissioned by HES, which is exploring volunteering in the historic environment sector in Scotland.
The research is being undertaken by Volunteer Scotland and will update previous research which was last undertaken in 2008. There is now a pressing requirement to provide an up-to-date position to help inform the measurement of Scotland’s historic environment strategy ‘Our Place in Time‘. The aim is to estimate the number of volunteers, the time committed and the economic value of this contribution to Scotland. Some wider volunteering issues will also be explored.
An online survey will be issued in February to organisations across the historic environment sector. We would like to hear from anyone who has an interest in this research and, in particular, if you are an organisation currently engaging volunteers working in the historic environment sector.
The results of the study are due by the end of April 2016. Volunteer Scotland would like to hear from anyone who has an interest in this research and, in particular, if you are an organisation currently engaging volunteers working in the historic environment sector. In the first instance please e-mail: gemma.jackson@volunteerscotland.org.uk. The results of the study are due by the end of April 2016.
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