Welcome to the
Global Foundation
Evidencing Volunteering
The Global Foundation supports evidence-based approaches and innovation for volunteer programmes in policing and beyond.
The Global Foundation works internationally to bring together those leading volunteering, both within policing and beyond, across many different countries. We work at a strategic level to support the senior leaders of volunteer programmes to adapt and grow their programmes. We help build data-driven and research-based models of volunteer engagement.
Our Foundation hosts the biennial Symposium on Volunteering in Policing and Community Safety, with our next event scheduled for Budapest on the 20th and 21 May, 2026. From summer 2026, we will also fully launch the new Global Observatory for Police Volunteering, which will bring together data and evidence on volunteers in policing and community safety from across the world.
Services
The Global Foundation works with ambitious policing organisations, governments, and other key stakeholders to positively grow volunteering and to maximise impact - for communities, for policing, and for volunteers themselves. We bring our international expertise and data-driven approach, to help leaders to realise the huge contribution that volunteers can bring to many of the generational policing and community safety challenges we face. To realise this potential and to grow volunteering well, requires bolder vision, different thinking, and new approaches. It requires us to use data far more effectively, and to develop much stronger insight into the volunteer experience and into why volunteers join, engage, and leave.
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