The Steering Committee on Promotion of Volunteer Service held a series of promotional and publicity programmes to promote volunteerism among students and youth, corporations and community organisations, and to encourage cross-sector cooperation in organising volunteer services so as to enhance social capital and develop a tripartite partnership among the private sector, the 'third sector' and the Government. At year-end, 1 248 organisations and 470 854 individuals had registered to participate in volunteer service.