In December 2011, the National Youth Council of Ireland released its report ‘Lending a Hand: Young People and Volunteering in Ireland’. This is the first comprehensive report on young people’s experience of and attitude towards volunteering in Ireland.  It marks 2011 the European Year of Volunteering and celebrates International Day of Volunteering. The results provide a timely insight into the untapped potential of youth volunteering and the barriers many young people still face.

To read the full report, click the following link: http://www.youth.ie/sites/youth.ie/files/Lending-a-Hand_Young-People-and-Volunteering.pdf