The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2023: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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In 2020/21 there were 163,959 voluntary organisations, a very small decrease since 2019/2020. The vast majority of voluntary organisations are micro and small. saw a UK-wide candidate-driven job market. Increased vacancies and fewer candidates resulted in a decrease in demand for jobs, making it harder for charities to recruit.

Medium charities pay the least on average at all experience levels, even when compared to micro and small charities, although there has been a slight decrease in salaries for micro and small charities since 2019. Larger organisations receive much more income from government than smaller ones. The social services sector in particular receives a large amount of funding from government, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of income. Volunteering participation varies by ethnicity, but different data sources tell different stories. Women and disabled people are relatively more likely to volunteer informally, with no differences by gender or disability for formal volunteering.This is the first year that NCVO has included data on charity vacancies and salary levels, produced in partnership with CharityJob. Voluntary organisations that focus on social services, research and international development make up most of the top 10 voluntary organisations by income. The voluntary sector workforce has a similar age profile to the public sector but is older than the private sector. There has been a steady increase year on year in the number of older people (aged 50 and above) and disabled people working in the UK voluntary sector, with this increase continuing in 2022. Around a third work at least partially remotely: 28% work from their own home and 10% work from different places with home as a base. Over a third of the voluntary sector workforce are employed in social work.

You can get Chinese holidays in each month of the year which is marked with ' ' and 24 Solar Terms marked with ' '. Those living in the least deprived areas are twice as likely to have volunteered formally at least monthly than those in the most deprived areas, reflected in higher levels of regular volunteering in the more affluent south of England. Government funding is the second largest income source for the voluntary sector, behind the public. There was a slight increase in the amount of government funding for the sector in the year to 2020/21, reversing the previous year’s decrease.People aged over 65 have maintained their levels of formal volunteering since 2020/21, while participation in all other age groups has dropped. People aged between 65 and 74 are the age group most likely to volunteer, both formally and informally, on a regular basis. Formal volunteering for this age group is twice the rate of those aged between 25 and 34. The voluntary sector is less ethnically diverse than the private and public sectors, with 90% of its staff identifying as white, compared to 86% for the public and 87% for the private.

As this report only covers the first full year of the covid-19 pandemic period, the next Almanac edition will provide further evidence of the ongoing impact. Almost half of voluntary sector income is from the public (the largest source) followed by close to a third from the government.

Just under half of all voluntary organisations rely on the public for the majority of their income. In the longer term, government income has broadly plateaued over the last decade, while falling as a proportion of total income, as organisations have increased their funding from alternate sources. The voluntary sector has a paid workforce of about 925,000, which is down 4% in 2022, reversing the previous year’s increase. The voluntary sector workforce has grown by 24% since 2011. Voluntary organisations carry out a range of different types of work. Social services – a relatively broad category – is the largest voluntary subsector, representing just under a fifth of the sector by size. Across the four nations, Scotland has the highest rate of voluntary organisations per population (3.6 per 1,000 people), followed by Northern Ireland (3.4), England (2.4), and Wales (2.3).

While substantially smaller than both the public and private sectors, it has seen the fastest growth over the last decade. A majority of voluntary sector employees work in smaller organisations with fewer than 50 paid staff members. Volunteering at least monthly was maintained at 16%, with little further decline in 2021/22 after the sharp drop from 23% in 2019/20 to 17% in 2020/21. Income and spending had increased consistently since 2000/01, but the rate of growth had slowed by 2019/20, and both fell in 2020/21, the first full year of the pandemic: income fell by 6% with spend decreasing by 8%. An estimated 14.2m people (27% of people) volunteered through a group, club or organisation in 2021/22. This is down from 16.3 (30%) million in 2020/21, and 20m (37%) in 2019/20.The voluntary sector workforce is distributed around the UK in a pattern relatively close to the population distribution, although London and the south, and Scotland are slightly over-represented. In 2021/22, 46% of the population (an estimated 25m) volunteered informally at least once and 26% (14.2m) did so at least once a month. The pandemic appears to have encouraged the growth of micro organisations in 2020/21, but with a decline in the number of small and medium organisations. Larger organisations are more likely to be active nationally and internationally, while smaller voluntary organisations are more likely to operate locally.