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Two-thirds of small to medium voluntary organisations do not have a dedicated human resources specialist, according to a report commissioned by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations.

Joanna Wootton, HR manager at the NCVO, said: "It is clear that many organisations are not planning strategically and this may be due in part to the lack of time or expertise available internally."

She added that the government's initiatives to support the capacity of voluntary organisations provided an "ideal opportunity to review the HR function and ensure that it is prioritised as an area of importance".


Kirsty Newsome, lecturer in human resources management at the University of Strathclyde, which carried out the research, said that although some organisations were formalising their HR policies, there were "question marks over the sustainability of provision given the constraints on internal resources".