Opinion: the voluntary sector must mind the gaps - The Guardian 31st October 2007

Groundbreaking research on the voluntary sector workforce, published today, should be a cause for celebration: the number of paid employees has grown more than 25% in a decade, some seven in 10 are women and, strikingly, almost one in five has a disability. But the research also exposes reasons for concern. One in four voluntary sector employers reports hard-to-fill vacancies, with skills shortages a real worry in marketing and fundraising in particular. And with 70% of the workforce located in workplaces of fewer than 50 people, there must be doubts about the capacity of the sector to up its human resources game.

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