Volunteers' work worth £27m a year to Victim Support
Howard Lake | 2 August 2005 | News
Victim Support has found that its 11,000 volunteers provided help worth almost £27 million nationally last year. The figure is based on a detailed study of the work of staff and volunteers in six of the organisation’s member charities.
The report was produced by chartered accountants Chantrey Vellacott DFK and used recognised ways of calculating the value of volunteer time. The work was funded by the Home Office as part of ongoing work to look at the way in which the Government helps fund Victim Support and the value of the public services the charity provides in return.
The research found that Victim Support, the national charity for people affected by crime, and Witness Service volunteers together donate two million hours of working time every year. The monetary value of this work roughly equals the annual grant from the Home Office to Victim Support.
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It also found that the investment in volunteers produced a return on investment of 1 to 5. In other words, for every pound invested in volunteer training and development, the charity reaped £5 in value from the volunteer.
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