# What young people think about charity workers

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/10/13/what-young-people-think-about-charity-workers/
- Published: 2006-10-13T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Following on from the UK Workfoce Hub’s report on young people’s perceptions of 
working in the voluntary sector, the Hub has produced a voluntary sector career 
guide for school leavers and graduates.

The report found that young people perceive the typical person who works in the 
voluntary and charity sector as old, female and white. The new national programme,
which aims to encourage young people to take up work placements with voluntary organisations,
sets out to dispel this myth and give young people a more representative view of
the sector.

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Most young people thought that rich people would be most likely to volunteer or 
carry out charity work, because they did not need the money. They also thought that
charity work was unpaid, with limited roles that were low-paid.

Perceptions were largely based on people who worked in charity shops and young people
felt they would not be aware of fashion and would not understand young people and
their views.