Volunteer centre cuts survey results

A survey of volunteer centres in England has found that over half that receive funding from the local authority had it cut in the past year. 52 per cent experienced cuts of up to 80 per cent, with half of those losing at least a fifth of local authority funding. The average cut was 25 per cent. Only 5 per cent received more money this year than they did in 2011/12, and 42 per cent received the same amount.

The results of the survey, carried out by Volunteering England and NAVCA, follow on from the finding of the Annual Return of Volunteer Centres for 2010/11, which found that funding from local government across the network declined on average by 12 per cent between 2009-10 and 2010-11.