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Latest findings from the Scottish Household Survey (2018)
48% of adults in Scotland have volunteered - that's over 2.17 million people. This overall figure combines those who've volunteered formally (providing unpaid help through an organisation or group) with those who've volunteered informally (helping someone who is not a friend or relative) in the last year.
Adults Base: All = 9,700
361 MILLION HOURS(a)
of help providing
£5.5 BILLION(b)
to the local economy
(a) 150m formal volunteering hours and 211m informal volunteering hours (numbers have been rounded to the nearest half a million or 500,000.(b) £2.3bn from formal volunteering and £3.2bn from informal volunteering (numbers have been rounded to the nearest million or 1,000,000.
Note: Data on the economic value of volunteering is only available on a 2 year basis.
Scottish Household Survey Data: Due to the small sample sizes for each local authority there can be large variability in SHS volunteering data year-on-year. Care should therefore be taken in the use and interpretation of participation rates, hours’ volunteered and economic values.
How do we measure the social and economic value of volunteering? Find out more here...