Volunteering communities in the Oban and Lorn area are bucking the national trend.
A recent report by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has suggested that volunteers are more likely to be from white, middle class backgrounds and charities need to ‘think about what barriers they may inadvertently be creating’.
However, having read the report, Claire Brown, Police Scotland youth volunteer co-ordinator for Oban, said: ‘As our journey in Oban Police Scotland Youth Volunteers moves and we continue partnership working with other volunteer groups within the Oban and Lorn area, there is little evidence to substantiate the report argument.’ Time Well Spent, a national survey on the volunteer experience, shows volunteering is carried out more by middle class and educated people than by working class and less educated people.