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Monday Sep 22, 2008
Do volunteers get drunk?
Recently I heard of a volunteering organisation that has introduced a ban on its name or logo appearing on any clothing that will primarily be worn for socialising. As a significant number of their volunteers are students; the ban is particularly aimed at those going on group pub crawls etc. The organisation is worried about the negative association of their brand with a bunch of rowdy students off-their-faces creating their own pavement pizzas in the small hours.I have no doubt that this organisation isn’t alone in introducing such a ban, and you can sort of understand the reasoning behind it.
But, given that one of the major findings of the Russell Commission (the inquiry caterpillar that turned into the V butterfly) was that most young people thought the image of volunteering needed to change, then perhaps it’s not bad thing that volunteers are seen to go out on the lash.
It might also help to dispel the notion that the young people out pubbing and clubbing on Friday and Saturday night are somehow different to those who give up their free time to do goodly deeds. Chances are they are often the same people.
Perhaps next year’s Volunteers’ Week should simply be a piss-up?
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