Organisations that recruit often assume the motive is pure .
Surveys find a more mixed and more durable picture.
People volunteer to learn a skill, to meet others and to fill a gap in a week.
Those motives are not less worthy; they are simply easier to .
A programme that offers training keeps people for years.
One that offers only loses them in months.
matters more than recruitment for almost every charity.
A volunteer trained for six months and lost is a net cost.
is the most common reason people leave.
A shift that moves every week defeats anyone with a job.
Fixing the is cheaper than any recruitment campaign.
It is also the change most often left to whoever has least time.