A BLACKBURN 55-year-old whose reaction to the coronavirus was to find out what he could to help is proof of a new academic finding that local people are more likely to volunteer. The University of Kent study shows that residents of boroughs which took part in the government s s Integrated Communities Strategy are almost twice as likely to come forward to assist others or the community than those which did not. It reveals during the Covid-19 pandemic people in Blackburn with Darwen have been 90 per cent more likely to volunteer than those from most other areas. Student safeguarding and welfare officer Neil Colquhoun started volunteering in March after seeing an appeal for telephone befrienders to support people isolated during the first lockdown.
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