Volunteers' Week 1-7 June
Volunteers’ Week is an annual campaign which takes place on 1-7 June and celebrates the fantastic contribution millions of volunteers make across the UK.
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This year’s Volunteers’ Week focuses on saying ‘Thank You’ to the millions of volunteers who regularly contribute to society, and to recognise the way that organisations celebrate the work of volunteers across the UK. Find out more and to get involved visit the new Volunteers' Week website. Looking for a volunteering opportunity to suit you visit our I want to volunteer page. The contribution of volunteeringEvery year, over 20 million people across England and the UK volunteer, donating more than 100 million hours to their communities every week. It has been estimated that the economic value of this activity is worth in excess of £40 billion to our economy.Services and initiatives that are vital to the running of our country simply wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for volunteers. This includes the NHS, the Coastguard Rescue Service (3,500 volunteers), the Mountain and Cave Rescue Service (3,500 volunteers in England and Wales), Natural England (2,200 volunteer wardens), the judiciary (30,000 volunteer magistrates in England and Wales) and the police(over 15,000 Special Constables).Volunteering and community cohesionBut volunteering has an even greater value than ensuring our essential community services function and national events are a success. Every year, millions of people help others in all sorts of ways, most of which they probably wouldn't even think of as volunteering.This makes a crucial contribution to binding our communities, building cooperation and trust between individuals, and helping to make our communities better places to live and work.Volunteers' Week 2012 evaluation reportYou can now read the evaluation report for Volunteers' Week 2012 (563.8Kb) , kindly produced by Cabinet Office volunteers.There's also a case study about our collaboration with Cabinet Office volunteers who helped deliver the campaign: The Cabinet Office as a 'civic service' (71.4Kb) . |
 
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