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    THE UK VOLUNTARY SECTOR:

    £10
    Number of UK voluntary sector and The median
    civil society organisations, 2007/08
    amount per
    donor

    THE HEART OF CIVIL SOCIETY


    Civil society
    900,000 organisations

    Voluntary sector
    171,000
    organisations

    The voluntary sector’s income and expenditure, 2007/08 (£ billions)


    Total income of the UK voluntary Other institutions
    sector and civil society, 2007/08 Grants 0.5 Individuals
    Trading Voluntary
    Earned 1.7 sector 0.2
    Contracts Grants subsidiaries
    and fees 3.7 0.9 1.3 3.0
    Civil society Statutory
    £157 billion 9.1 Governance bodies and
    0.7 universities
    Grants 1.8
    Voluntary 5.0
    Voluntary sector sector
    £35.5 billion 3.0

    Total expenditure of the UK Statutory


    voluntary sector and civil society, sources
    Charitable
    2007/08

    Civil society
    12.8
    Income Expenditure activities
    £147 billion
    National 35.5 32.8 28.0
    Lottery
    0.5
    Voluntary sector
    £32.8 billion Donations Private
    1.2 sector
    2.0
    Total net assets of the UK voluntary Earned
    sector and civil society, 2007/08 0.8 Investments Generating
    funds Fundraising
    3.2 and publicity
    Fundraising 4.1
    Individuals Retained income and 2.6
    Civil society 2.2 capital expenditure
    £244 billion 13.1 2.7
    Donations
    5.8
    Voluntary sector Fees for Investment Trading
    £96.6 billion Legacies services management subsidiaries
    2.0 3.1 0.5 1.0

    171,000
    Number of paid staff in the UK Of civil society’s 900,000
    voluntary sector and civil society,
    2007/08 organisations are within The new Civil Society Almanac – now in its 10th
    NCVO Research
    the voluntary sector edition – is a completely revised, easy-to-use
    version of NCVO’s major annual reference NCVO’s research aims to support the
    Civil society
    1.6 million
    publication. It draws together trends, facts and development of policy and practice in
    information from our own research programme,
    plus the latest available data from government
    the voluntary and community sector.
    surveys, academic research, and research by Further information on our work can
    be found at:

    668,000
    Voluntary sector voluntary organisations.
    668,000 The Almanac is aimed at policy makers and www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/research
    practitioners with an interest in voluntary
    organisations and civil society. It reports key trends
    and characteristics on a range of topics, including
    Number of people who formally and
    funding and finance, spending, workforce and
    informally volunteer once a year in
    employment, volunteering and beneficiaries. The
    the UK, 2008/09
    Almanac focuses on how voluntary organisations at
    the heart of civil society have changed over the last
    Informal volunteers decade, often comparing trends with the public and
    30.9 million private sectors.

    www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/almanac
    Formal
    volunteers
    20.4 million
    Of civil society’s 1.6 million paid staff
    work in the voluntary sector

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