# Volunteers' contribution quantified

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/03/27/volunteers039-contribution-quantified/
- Published: 2001-03-27T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

 

 

 

 

Read Where time is money by John James at SocietyGuardian.

 

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