Volunteers' contribution quantified
Howard Lake | 27 March 2001 | News
Volunteers undertake two-thirds of UK charities’ work, says a by the Institute of Volunteering Research for the Directory of Social Change and funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The research attempts to encourage charities to publicise the vast contribution made by people volunteering their time and skills.
Volunteers undertake two-thirds of UK charities’ work, says a by the Institute of Volunteering Research for the Directory of Social Change and funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The research attempts to encourage charities to publicise the vast contribution made by people volunteering their time and skills.
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The survey of 156 groups found that their combined 2 million or more volunteers amounted to the equivalent of 224,000 full-time workers. The annual value of volunteers to the Samaritans alone, for example, ranged from £11m at the minimum wage of £3.70 an hour to £31m if you adopt a a more realistic market rate of £10 an hour.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.