Dwayne Fields, the UK's chief scout, advocates for a legal right to 35 hours of paid leave annually for volunteering. Fields argues that volunteering benefits individuals, communities, and companies, promoting happiness, productivity, and personal growth. He shares his personal experience of how scouting instilled values that prevented him from seeking revenge after being confronted with a gun.
People should be allowed more flexibility at work so they can find time to volunteer for good causes, the UK's chief scout has said.
He is one of the Today programme's guest editors this year and used his episode to explain how volunteering can build confidence, self-worth and the ability to empower others. It was a turning point for Dwayne, who had also survived a stabbing a couple of years earlier, as he feared his younger brother's life might be at risk too.
"I was a kid who had very little in the way of clothing," he said. "I didn't have toys, we didn't have electricity, gas or running water in the house. The benefit of such values are obvious in Peterborough, a town Dwayne visited as part of his Today programme. For him, people like her illustrate the importance of volunteering, whether it be through Scouts or other charitable organisations.
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