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Volunteering Australia’s ‘Re-engaging Volunteers and COVID-19’ survey, received nearly 600 responses over December 2020 and January 2021, highlighting some worrying statistics. Although COVID restrictions have eased considerably across Australia, over half of the 600 respondents surveyed, said their organisations needed more volunteers, with four out of ten finding it difficult to re-engage or recruit volunteers. These results are particularly concerning, as recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data shows that pre-COVID, the rate of Australians volunteering and the time they give, continue to decline. In 2019, 7% less Australians volunteered for an organisation compared to 2010 and their contribution was 143 million less hours compared to 2014 (a 20% decrease). ....

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