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Community Life Survey 2019/20 - Volunteering and Charitable Giving

Analysis of questions from the Community Life Survey 2019/20 related to volunteering and charitable giving

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Background

The Community Life Survey collects information about whether adults (16+) have volunteered and given to charitable causes.

The Office for Civil Society (OCS) within DCMS aims to empower citizens to take part and to make it as compelling and easy as possible to give something back, enabling citizens to help to improve their lives, support others, and solve the problems that are important in their communities in whatever way they can.

This section provides headline data measuring engagement in formal and informal volunteering, reasons for and barriers to volunteering, as well as charitable giving behaviours and views. The data looks at engagement over time, and differences in engagement between demographic groups.

Headline measures – 2019/20

  • 64% of respondents have volunteered in any way in the last 12 months, and 39% at least once a month.
  • 75% of respondents have given to charitable causes in the last 4 weeks.

Further data

Updates to this page

Published 14 July 2020

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