The problem is that there is a shortage of volunteer roles in the charity sector
With a lack of jobs (especially low-paid part-time work), many students and graduates volunteered to gain work experience. The volunteer sector did not have enough volunteer managers nor charities to receive the influx.
This is why the volunteer work you will get is basically doing a paid job for free in the service of a profit-making business while being treated legally as a volunteer.
Businesses have already been criticised for abusing the economic situation by using unpaid graduate internships as a source of free labour.
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