Abstract
Volunteering has received attention as both an academic topic and an instrument of social policy by researchers as well as international organizations and national governments for more than twenty years. The so called "inclusive volunteering" is a recent phenomenon related to European social inclusion and social cohesion policies and to the effort to empower disabled persons and increase their quality of life.
The aim of the article is to review the present knowledge and identify different perspectives on inclusive volunteering as they appear in the relevant body of literature. Further, we review what has been described as benefits of inclusive volunteering to volunteers themselves, their organizations and society at large and discuss the limits of volunteering as a tool of social inclusion.
The article critically assesses inclusive volunteering as potentially effective tool of social inclusion, which has its limits.