CEMVO’s experience of delivering our National Health Service Volunteering programme demonstrates that this is something that is very varied. We currently engage with 40 hospitals in the South West, North East and North West of England. All these hospitals are situated in inner city and diverse communities, and our work indicates that there is sadly a great variation in both extent and variety of volunteering opportunities. This has a direct impact on some of the most marginalised communities in society today. Our experience, for example indicates that volunteering is an activity which is generally not mainstreamed within the core business of running a hospital, and is a function, which we believe would benefit from greater recognition as for example, Human Resources. We also believe that there is scope for greater innovation in relation to the creation and development of volunteering opportunities, which would in turn attract more diverse candidates to volunteering. We would therefore state the following: