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The real value of volunteering on the railways

Paul Salveson
19 September 2014

 

It doesn’t seem that long ago that David Cameron launched his ‘Big Society’ initiative, which aimed to unleash the power of community-minded volunteers across whole swathes of activity. You don’t hear much of it these days, since it suffered the ultimate fate of top-down ‘initiatives’: uninterest. The political class isn’t noted for persistence, especially when it sees a particular initiative failing to capture the public mood. So ‘Big...

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Paul Salveson

Paul Salveson

Paul Salveson

Paul Salveson is a board member of Passenger Focus and a visiting professor at the University of Huddersfield. Paul’s book Railpolitik – bringing railways back to communities, was published in 2013, also by Lawrence and Wishart. The views expressed here are his own.

 



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