What’s Happening in the Third Sector?
The Big Help Out
The Big Help Out recently launched their app for volunteers, offering thousands of opportunities from 1,500 charities across the UK. The app is designed to help those new to volunteering or who have previously experienced barriers or challenges to find quick and easy suitable opportunities, searchable by postcode, activity, and organization.
The campaign is part of the Coronation celebrations. It is founded by the Shaping the Future with Volunteering Group, working in partnership with The Together Coalition, and is supported by the DCMS and the Royal Households.
The campaign aims to capture new interest in volunteering, channelling it towards groups and causes that need support after formal volunteering rates fell during COVID. Opportunities for volunteering will be available throughout the summer, including Volunteers Week and Thank You Day.
Online Event: How to Gather Feedback and Drive Engagement
Agenda Consulting are hosting a live webinar that focuses on how to gather volunteer feedback and boost engagement.
Do you want to further understand your volunteers’ drivers and motivations? Do you want to know where to focus your efforts when evolving your volunteer program?
A Volunteer Survey can help you answer these questions and gain deep insight.
Join Agenda Consulting to explore best practice for designing, running and analysing your Volunteer Surveys. They will be sharing guidance on how to design an impactful survey that generates insightful results.
Book your place on the webinar here.
New Figures Reveal Volunteering’s Worth to the UK Economy
New research, commissioned by Benefact Group and conducted by the Centre of Economics and Business Research (CEBR), found that volunteering is worth a huge £18.7 billion to the UK economy.
Not only this, but in 2022 the combined value of volunteering and donations came to £23 billion. This represents 0.8% of the total UK GDP, making the impact larger than the sports and gambling sector (valued at a combined £18.4 billion).
While the COVID-19 pandemic reduced the number of people getting involved in volunteering and its monetary value to the UK, the research shows that we are back to pre-pandemic numbers. Driven by a post-pandemic surge in volunteering, the proportion of adults giving up their free time to help good causes rose by 11.8% between 2018/19 – 2022.
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