The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2023: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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saw a UK-wide candidate-driven job market. Increased vacancies and fewer candidates resulted in a decrease in demand for jobs, making it harder for charities to recruit. An estimated 14.2m people (27% of people) volunteered through a group, club or organisation in 2021/22. This is down from 16.3 (30%) million in 2020/21, and 20m (37%) in 2019/20.

In 2021/22, 46% of the population (an estimated 25m) volunteered informally at least once and 26% (14.2m) did so at least once a month. Government funding is the second largest income source for the voluntary sector, behind the public. There was a slight increase in the amount of government funding for the sector in the year to 2020/21, reversing the previous year’s decrease.Volunteering at least monthly was maintained at 16%, with little further decline in 2021/22 after the sharp drop from 23% in 2019/20 to 17% in 2020/21. Medium charities pay the least on average at all experience levels, even when compared to micro and small charities, although there has been a slight decrease in salaries for micro and small charities since 2019.

While levels of formal volunteering had remained largely unchanged from 2015/16 to 2019/20, they dropped sharply at the start of the pandemic in 2020/21, but the rate of decline has now slowed.

In the longer term, government income has broadly plateaued over the last decade, while falling as a proportion of total income, as organisations have increased their funding from alternate sources.