{"id":39577,"date":"2024-04-09T16:05:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=39577"},"modified":"2024-04-08T16:58:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:58:24","slug":"volunteering-adds-4-6bn-to-uk-economy-each-year-researchers-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=39577","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering adds \u00a34.6bn to UK economy each year, researchers estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-31923\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pound_green_nb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"159\" \/>Volunteering in professional and managerial positions in the UK produces \u00a34.6bn-worth of productivity gains each year, \u00a34,551 per volunteer, according to a new report.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Civil Society writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Pro Bono Economics (PBE) and Royal Voluntary Service (RVS) surveyed 1,000 unemployed adults and found that 68% would be interested in supported volunteering opportunities to prepare them for finding work.<\/p>\n<p>Jansev Jemal, director of research and policy at PBE, said: \u201c\u2026 It is really important that we keep building a growing body of evidence to demonstrate its true value and use it to strengthen the relationship between government and the sector\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.civilsociety.co.uk\/news\/volunteering-adds-4-6bn-to-uk-economy-each-year-researchers-estimate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.probonoeconomics.com\/a-pro-bono-bonus\">View the report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteering in professional and managerial positions in the UK produces \u00a34.6bn-worth of productivity gains each year, \u00a34,551 per volunteer, according to a new report. image for illustration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39577","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\/39577","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39578,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39577\/revisions\/39578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}