Features and comment

Last night Channel 4, Dispatches investigated how MPs spend their summer recess, criticising expensive and unproductive trips abroad at the taxpayer’s expense.  Judith Brodie, VSO UK’s Director looks at how the summer recess has been used to good effect by some MPs who have been volunteering with VSO.

Earlier this year Greg Dyke, ex-Director General of the BBC, visited VSO education volunteers working in Uganda. An extract of his diary was printed in issue 41 of SEN Magazine www.senmagazine.co.uk and you can read it in full here.

In summer 2008 Tony Baldry took part in VSO's Parliamentarian Volunteering Scheme and travelled to Nepal where he shared his skills with the Dalit Welfare Organisation. He revolunteered in August 2009 and writes here about his plans for his second visit.