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Volunteers can be a wonderful resource for an after-school club. Jackie Nunns gives advice on recruitment and deployment of these helpers A staggering 48 per cent of the adult population of the UK are volunteers. The most common fields of volunteering include education and social welfare, and over two-thirds of volunteering takes place in local, independent groups. This is excellent news for the out-of-school sector, but successful volunteering in a child-centred environment takes creative thinking, good planning and plain...