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| The 1997 national survey of volunteering | | Author(s) | Justin Davis Smith |
| Corporate Author | National Centre for Volunteering; Centre for Institutional Studies, University of East London |
| Publisher | National Centre for Volunteering, London, 1998 |
| Pages | 160 pp |
| Source | The National Centre for Volunteering, Regent's Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London N1 9RL. |
| Keywords | Voluntary workers ; Voluntary work [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | This report is the third national survey of volunteering, carried out for the National Centre for Volunteering by BMRB International in 1997, and funded by the former Department of National Heritage (DNH) Voluntary and Community Division and the Charities Aid Foundation. The two previous surveys were commissioned by the (then) Volunteer Centre UK and carried out by Social and Community Planning Research (SCPR) in 1981 and 1991. To ensure comparability with the earlier surveys, the same definition of volunteering is used in this one, namely: any activity which involves spending time, unpaid, doing something which aims to benefit someone (individuals or groups) other than in addition to close relatives, or to benefit the environment. This report describes the data collected by the survey and offers some discussion of the main findings on the characteristics of volunteers and organisations helped; the benefits and drawbacks of volunteering; attitudes towards voluntary work in society and towards volunteers; and barriers to volunteering, and attitudes of irregular or former volunteers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980818219 B |
| Classmark | QV: GHH: F: 3F |
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