Measuring the Impossible: Making a Start, by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) for volunteering charity V, said there is still no evidence to suggest youth volunteers carry on volunteering in later life and become active citizens in their communities.
But the study found that youth volunteering is associated with positive outcomes particularly when it comes to obtaining higher education qualifications, while young people who do not undertake voluntary work between the ages of 11 and 25 may be harming their "participation in the social and economic spheres of life, both now and later in life".
NFER principal research officer David Kerr called for further research into the impact of volunteering among young people on their attitudes to the big society ideals such as community activities in later life.
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