The Steering Committee on Promotion of Volunteer Service held a series of promotional and publicity programmes during the year to promote voluntary work among students and young people, corporations and community organisations. The programmes also aimed to encourage cross-sector cooperation in organising volunteer services in order to enhance social capital, foster harmony in the community and develop a tri-partite partnership between the private sector, the third sector and the Government. By the end of the year, 1 465 organisations and 527 777 individuals had registered for voluntary service.