{"id":10295,"date":"2015-05-22T18:26:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T17:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2015-05-22T18:26:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T17:26:31","slug":"northern-ireland-arts-and-culture-volunteers-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=10295","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland arts and culture volunteers study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) today released figures on volunteering in culture and arts by adults in Northern Ireland in 2013\/14, revealing the top reasons why people volunteer and the profile of events which take place (such as fundraising, museum related opportunities and governance).<\/u><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) writes:<br \/>\n<\/u>Just over one in ten adults (11%) had volunteered in culture and arts within the last year while less than one in every twenty adults (4%) had ever volunteered at a major culture or arts event.<\/p>\n<p>About two-fifths of volunteers carried out fundraising roles, while around one fifth were involved in teaching and event management. More than four-fifths of culture and arts volunteers (83%) stated that having fun\/ enjoyment was a benefit of volunteering in culture and arts.<\/p>\n<p>The publications are available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcalni.gov.uk\/index\/quick-links\/research_and_statistics-3\/statistical_publication\/arts_publications\/chs-adult-culture-arts-volunteering-201314.htm\" target=\"_blank\">DCAL website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernireland.gov.uk\/index\/media-centre\/news-departments\/news-dcal\/news-dcal-140515-statistics-released-on.htm\" target=\"_blank\">View the news release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9169\" target=\"_blank\">Volunteer with\u00a0the IHBC\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) today released figures on volunteering in culture and arts by adults in Northern Ireland in 2013\/14, revealing the top reasons why people volunteer and the profile of events which take place (such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=10295\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10296,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions\/10296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}