Daily Archives: Thursday, February 2, 2012

What’s better for jobseekers – Poundland, or quality volunteering?

I heard a variety of tales while researching an article about charity volunteers being put on welfare-to-work schemes. Most were related in blunt terms by exasperated-sounding charity employees, and all had worrying implications. It seems that in some cases, charity volunteers who are claiming benefits have been told to stop volunteering in order to complete… Read more »