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Consideration of some of the issues and tensions around Day Centre provision, reflecting the experience of running the Lincoln Centre, which has Home Office approval but does not seek Schedule 11 conditions. Various dilemmas arising from simultaneous but conflicting agendas fromm clients, staff and courts are highlighted, as well as the sometimes alarming 'side effects' of managingsuch a resource.

Graduates of a 1970s training program for women demonstrated that they had expanded the social change and voluntarism agenda of their earlier training to incorporate feminism and personal action in the workplace. These women were active professionals espousing personal achievement and individual voluntarism, yet they had forsworn col lective action. They mirror the oddity of American feminism in defin ing even social change in individualistic terms.

Abstract  This paper examines Japanese voluntarism from a historical perspective, through which it can be seen that it is not volunteerism and volunteer activity per se which is emerging in contemporary Japanese society, but instead an emerging consciousness of volunteerism and an associated emerging terminology of volunteerism. This emerging consciousness is in part a function of social evolution, and in part due to an administrative generated movement to generate a volunteer spirit in Japan, the borantiu‐katsudo movement. This emerging consciousness has on the one hand benefitted existing categories of volunteerism by increasing their visibility and expanding their dimensional character and relevance. On the other hand, this emerging consciousness has also generated some unforeseen forms of contemporary volunteerism.