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  • In the last year Irish volunteer’s contributed 465,624 hours of volunteer work to community and voluntary organisations.
  • For the first time ever we had a question on our national census asking members of the public if they volunteer
  • Many people leave a volunteer job because no-one knows their name
  • The Irish government has increased funding by €5 million per annum to support volunteering as part of the 'Towards 2016' agreement.
  • Volunteer Centres Ireland manages the only national database of volunteers in the country.
  • The Economic Social Research Institute estimate that 400,000 adults give over 900,000 hours of voluntary work to sports clubs every week.
  • The most important benefits of volunteering include: seeing results, doing good, meeting people and 'enjoyment'. For women, doing good is the most important benefit followed closely by seeing results. For men, seeing a result is most important followed by meeting people - Tipping the Balance, National Committee on Volunteering, 2001