voluntary

She wants to continue voluntary work but cannot until she finds a permanent home.

It’s tough to justify violating people’s rights to engage them in involuntary treatments when voluntary treatments are inaccessible.

A consultation with staff has opened, along with a voluntary redundancy scheme, in a push to bring down costs for a party which has struggled to attract major donors.

Lucy died on 23 September after going missing from a psychiatric unit in Scarborough where she had been staying as a voluntary inpatient.

It said voluntary bodies "cannot afford additional financial pressures", adding: “Many have already had to subsidise public services with their own funds, and increasingly we are hearing of organisations having to close their doors.”