Volunteering In Australia
INTRODUCTION
Volunteering is an act whereby a person gives out personal time to do something good without gaining any financial rewards. This is ‘classical’ meaning which has changed by social transformations into 'new ' volunteering in recent years. The volunteers now have specific expectations and also volunteering has become project orientated ( Rehberg, 2005).
METHODS
FINDINGS
The purpose of the study was to find why Australians do volunteering and three themes were found and these are volunteering, family and costs or rewards.
Volunteering
The participants were asked what the volunteer work means and majority said it means giving up personal time in order to help without gaining any benefits:
Giving up my time to help others …show more content…
You need to know you actually did something.(Anna)
For example, I got a lovely letter last week from the sister of a gentleman who has been shuffled between the Townsville hospital and the police cells because noone would take responsibility and get him the help he needed.(Bernadette)
The issue of costs was discussed and it was found that in case of the small costs like petrol prices there should deduction from tax, or the organization should refund the costs or sometimes the volunteer can seek sponsorship:
Out-of-pocket expenses for volunteers can add up particularly petrol prices these days. Maybe volunteer work could be seen as paid work by the government and petrol and other expenses could be claimed via taxes rather than out of the organisation’s
Volunteering is an act whereby a person gives out personal time to do something good without gaining any financial rewards. This is ‘classical’ meaning which has changed by social transformations into 'new ' volunteering in recent years. The volunteers now have specific expectations and also volunteering has become project orientated ( Rehberg, 2005).
METHODS
FINDINGS
The purpose of the study was to find why Australians do volunteering and three themes were found and these are volunteering, family and costs or rewards.
Volunteering
The participants were asked what the volunteer work means and majority said it means giving up personal time in order to help without gaining any benefits:
Giving up my time to help others …show more content…
You need to know you actually did something.(Anna)
For example, I got a lovely letter last week from the sister of a gentleman who has been shuffled between the Townsville hospital and the police cells because noone would take responsibility and get him the help he needed.(Bernadette)
The issue of costs was discussed and it was found that in case of the small costs like petrol prices there should deduction from tax, or the organization should refund the costs or sometimes the volunteer can seek sponsorship:
Out-of-pocket expenses for volunteers can add up particularly petrol prices these days. Maybe volunteer work could be seen as paid work by the government and petrol and other expenses could be claimed via taxes rather than out of the organisation’s