[Closed] (Not so) Big Society

Apparently we're volunteering less...

Using data from the Citizenship Survey and its successor, and sticking to people who volunteer at least once a month – “frequent” volunteers, for whom the data is more reliable – the number of frequent hours volunteered each year fell from 2.28 billion hours in 2005 to just 1.97 billion hours in 2014.

That’s a fall of 16 percent, including a six percent drop in the year from 2013 to 2014, as this chart from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows (data was not collected in 2006 or 2011):

What’s more, the British population has actually risen in that time, meaning that the number of hours should have been going up just to stand still on a per-person basis.

https://sentinelnewsblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/the-final-failure-of-the-big-society/

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