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

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The voluntary sector workforce has a similar age profile to the public sector but is older than the private sector. The proportion of global majority, otherwise referred to as black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) employees in the voluntary sector is low compared to the other two, and has not changed in the last eight years. Major and super-major organisations are responsible for over half the sector’s expenditure, similar to their share of income.

The social services sector in particular receives a large amount of funding from government, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of income. Around a third work at least partially remotely: 28% work from their own home and 10% work from different places with home as a base. A majority of voluntary sector employees work in smaller organisations with fewer than 50 paid staff members. Women and disabled people are relatively more likely to volunteer informally, with no differences by gender or disability for formal volunteering.While substantially smaller than both the public and private sectors, it has seen the fastest growth over the last decade. The level of informal volunteering has dropped back to pre-pandemic levels following a rise earlier in the pandemic in 2020/21 (54% at least once, 33% at least monthly). In 2021/22, 46% of the population (an estimated 25m) volunteered informally at least once and 26% (14. Almost half of voluntary sector income is from the public (the largest source) followed by close to a third from the government.

This can be very useful if you are looking for a specific date (When there's a holiday / vacation for example) or maybe you want to know what the week number of a date in 2023 is. The pandemic has changed the way charities work, with a significant increase in remote and hybrid opportunities.In 2020/21 there has been an uptick in central government funding, and a halt to the decline for local funding. Informal volunteering (which includes giving unpaid help without being involved in groups, clubs, or organisations) is less visible.

The dates also include Hijri dates for the Muslims, Chinese Lunar dates for the Chinese and Tamil dates. It's also possible to find out for a particular date in 2023 which week day is belonging to that date. Over the last decade, central government funding has been relatively steady while local government funding has declined steadily.Income and spending had increased consistently since 2000/01, but the rate of growth had slowed by 2019/20, and both fell in 2020/21, the first full year of the pandemic: income fell by 6% with spend decreasing by 8%.

The calendar displays Gregorian Dates in bold black font and corresponding dates in Chinese lunar calendar (shown just under the Gregorian Dates). 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.Compared with 2019/20 expenditure, in 2020/21, the only type of spending that did not decline was grants.