摘要：In this article volunteering, voluntary social educational activities as a way of solving problems, social skills training, interpersonal communication skills development, personal character building, knowledge accumulation and other opportunities of acquiring experience will be analysed. General results of research is that while doing the voluntary social educational activities the unfavour of the surrounding in faced, there is often lack of time and resources to perform all work well, and the lack of suitable premises, the frequent change of members and stress cause extra complications; volunteers engaging in voluntary social educational activities, perform most of the managerial functions; most frequent social educational activities are carried by volunteers; the most important psychological factors are volunteer satisfaction, self-expression and social and emotional development; quality of life of respondents is mostly influenced by developed and maintained positive interpersonal relations and cooperation while volunteering; volunteering mostly acquired social skills. There were noticed other voluntary benefits such as knowledge acquisition, personal problem solving and experience; volunteering improves health of volunteers, mostly – physical health; there was noted a very close relationship between the model and the theory of the voluntary social educational activities on quality of life in practice. Key words: volunteer, quality of life, voluntary social educational activity.
