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

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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.

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. You can get Chinese holidays in each month of the year which is marked with ' ' and 24 Solar Terms marked with ' '. 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.

Chinese Lunar Calendar 24 Solar Terms Five Elements Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches China HolidaysGovernment 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. 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. 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. 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.

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 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. Informal volunteering (which includes giving unpaid help without being involved in groups, clubs, or organisations) is less visible.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.