From Minister Bonisoli a clampdown on volunteerism. Soon scheme to regulate conventions precisely

Minister of Cultural Heritage Alberto Bonisoli announces a clampdown on volunteering: in particular, in the coming days, on his instructions, a notice will be issued that will serve to “precisely regulate agreements with voluntary associations to regulate instrumental services intended for the enjoyment and enhancement of cultural heritage, in harmony with the current regulatory provisions.” Spreading the news is the AgCult agency, which indicates that it learned it from sources in the Ministry of Cultural Heritage: in turn, the sources emphasized the minister’s “irritation” at the protection of volunteers “whose passion and self-sacrifice is recognized,” over some press articles about some calls for association.

In particular, the reimbursement of expenses for volunteers “should not be anchored to work performance but to objective expenses self-certified by the associations themselves according to the regulatory framework of reference,” and for this reason the act to be issued in the coming days will recall that “voluntary activity cannot be remunerated in any way even by the beneficiary, that the eventual reimbursement of expenses is governed by the Code of the Third Sector and that theentity of reimbursement cannot be anchored to time parameters linked to the performance carried out and provided by the individual Association.”

It is conceivable that the straw that broke the camel’s back was the case of the call for volunteers at the Angelica Library in Rome: brought to the attention of the press and the public by our magazine last May 13, it sparked a wave of outrage that, with articles appearing in the generalist press, even transcended the narrow circles of our sector.

The minister, after all, had stated it in the interview he gave to Windows on Art in March that that of misused volunteerism is a priority that needs to be addressed in the immediate term, and this measure goes in the direction our magazine wishes, which continues to confirm its frontline commitment to this problem that needs to be solved.

In the photo, Minister of Cultural Heritage Alberto Bonisoli

From Minister Bonisoli a clampdown on volunteerism. Soon scheme to regulate conventions precisely

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