What you really, really want Volunteer managers want some form of national professional body to help guarantee standards and give the profession a public identity. That is one of the main findings of an important new study, which is likely to have major implications for the future of volunteer management.
Volunteer management is a fast-growing profession.
In spite of this, very little research has been carried out into VMs and their needs. Its purpose was twofold. Firstly, to establish the current and future professional training, accreditation and support needs of VMs in England. Below are some extracts from the Delivering the Goods with particular emphasis on the issues around professionalisation. The 'why' of professionalisation A large amount of discussion among the participating VMs centred around the issue of a more formal structure for volunteer management, whether it was desirable and what form it might take.