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Cabinet Office: A charitable society where people are more than likely to volunteer or give money to charity is revealed in an extensive survey published by the Cabinet Office. Helping Out: A national survey of volunteering and charitable giving found that:

* 58% had both volunteered & donated to charity in the last 12 months

* 81% had given to a charity within the last four weeks

 

The most common reasons for volunteering were:

* 'to improve things or help people' (53%)

* 'because the cause was important' (41%)

* 'because they had spare time' (41%)

Press release ~ 'Helping Out: A national survey of volunteering and charitable giving' ~ National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) ~ Voluntary Sector Studies Network (VSSN) ~ Get on Board campaign website ~ Charity Commission ~ TimeBank ~ Volunteering England ~ Office of the Third Sector in the Cabinet Office ~ National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) ~ Institute for Volunteering Research (IVR) ~ do-it.org.uk ~ volunteering-wales.net