According to the National Council For Voluntary Organisations’ (NCVO) UK Civil Society Almanac 2016 42% of the UK population over the age of 16 undertook a formal volunteering engagement at least once a year. Formal volunteering is considered giving help to giving unpaid help through a group, club or organisation. Since 2001, this number is more or less stable with the rates of adults formally volunteering at least once in the last year continue to be within five percentage points of each other.

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