# Pre-budget report includes plans to recruit millions of volunteers

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/12/06/prebudget-report-includes-plans-recruit-millions-volunteers/
- Published: 2005-12-06T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

In his pre-budget speech yesterday Chancellor Gordon Brown MP announced plans to
recruit millions of volunteers, most of them young people, to reinvigorate disadvantaged
communities.
Every local authority will receive £500,000 to set up a young people’s
fund for distribution by young people on “amenities and activities run by young 
people”, according to Mr Brown.

The Chancellor had already announced a national youth community service in the March
2005 budget, focused on 16 to 25-year-olds. “It will fund gap years volunteering
in Britain and abroad for young people who otherwise could not afford this,” explained
Mr Brown.

The plans are the government’s response to the Russell Commission on encouraging
volunteering.

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