Summary headlines from NCVO’s Civil Society Almanac 2024
I’ve just added NCVO’s Civil Society Almanac 2024 to my ever-growing collated list of philanthropy, benchmarking and broader charity sectoral reports.
It’s a comprehensive look principally at 2021/22 – and here are some of the headline stats:
* The voluntary sector’s recovery continues, with growth in key areas: in 2021/22, there were approximately 166,000 voluntary organisations in the UK
* Social services remains the dominant subsector
* The sector’s total income increased by 9% compared to the previous year, reaching £69.1bn. Expenditure rose by 2% to £65.4bn
* Around 14.2 million people (27% of the population) volunteered formally
The Almanac’s 2024 workforce figures reveal that the voluntary sector employed 978,000 people (about 1 in 3 of them in London and the South East), which is about 3% of the UK workforce – a slight decline from 2023, although since 2011 the sector’s workforce has grown by 30%. Women make up 68% of the workforce, 28% are over the age of 55, and while the proportion of disabled employees has increased, the sector lags behind in terms of ethnic diversity. Plenty to consider here.
