To highlight Volunteers’ Week, ICAEW Insights touches on the age gap within volunteering, expressing how chartered accountants have valued skills from the day they qualify and should use them. “We’re finding that people are waiting to volunteer when they are later in their careers”, said Chris Owens, CFO and Company Secretary of research charity, Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM). “Certainly, we would like to increase the number of people volunteering under the age of 45, because there's a lot of people with critical skills who could really build on their experience by volunteering outside of their workplace.” Owens is also Chair of the Advisory Group for the ICAEW volunteering community and finds it interesting that the age profile within the community, at present, is mostly people above the age of 45. He believes this is because ‘there's a recognition that as you get older, you are more experienced, you're wiser and you probably have more to bring in’. However, he would like to see this demographic broadened so that young accountants are aware that once they have completed their training, they have a lot to offer from any age.