Year: 2009
Module: Volunteering
Variable: VOLWHAT

If response to VOLPAST is not 'no'...

What type of roles do you undertake when volunteering? (Please tick all that apply)

This is a multiple response table from question 27 in the 2009 YLT survey.

 

	Number of respondents	% of respondents
Organising or helping to run an activity or event	334	71
Visiting people, befriending or mentoring people	167	36
Coaching in a sport	108	23
Helping in church or a religious organisation	190	40
Secretarial, administration or clerical work	36	8
Practical help (e.g. shopping, gardening, building, meal on wheels)	101	22
Looking after a property or a pet for someone who is away	59	13
Improving the environment (e.g. wildlife conservation or picking up litter)	44	9
Other	67	14
None of these	8	2

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Results for young men and women

	%
	Males	Females
Organising or helping to run an activity or event	69	73
Visiting people, befriending or mentoring people	22	43
Coaching in a sport	35	15
Helping in church or a religious organisation	36	43
Secretarial, administration or clerical work	9	7
Practical help (e.g. shopping, gardening, building, meal on wheels)	28	18
Looking after a property or a pet for someone who is away	16	11
Improving the environment (e.g. wildlife conservation or picking up litter)	14	7
Other	12	16
None of these	1	2

 

Results for people of different religion

	%
	Catholic	Protestant	No religion
Organising or helping to run an activity or event	72	73	66
Visiting people, befriending or mentoring people	38	35	32
Coaching in a sport	27	18	23
Helping in church or a religious organisation	31	62	16
Secretarial, administration or clerical work	6	8	10
Practical help (e.g. shopping, gardening, building, meal on wheels)	18	24	24
Looking after a property or a pet for someone who is away	12	15	9
Improving the environment (e.g. wildlife conservation or picking up litter)	11	8	9
Other	12	13	20
None of these	2	<1	4

 

'Other' activities undertaken included:

• Animal care
• Anti-racist work, youth fight for jobs.
• Attend early year centre, teach and care for the children.
• Attending St. Vincent de Paul Youth Conference, organised through the school.
• baby sitting (2 respondents)
• Bag packing
• Bag packing and money collection
• Being a leader at a youth club.
• Bucket collecting for local M S Branch.
• Built houses in Hungary
• Cancer Research UK shop
• Charity shop: bill, sorting clothes, tidy floor
• Collecting money for NI children's hospice
• Dancing in the riverside & helping with the routine.
• elderly and third world country
• Fundraising for school and club.
• Fundraising
• Fundraising for a charity
• Fundraising in Pipe Band
• General shop duties - tidying, managing stock & working the tins.
• Give advice to friends if needed.
• Giving views of young people.
• Guides - working with peers, helping the community.
• Help clean out cages & feed wild animals that have been hurt or abandoned.
• Help in a local charity shop: until, sorting store, and saving costumers.
• Help out in a charity shop (4 respondents)
• Helping in a maths class for year 8
• Helping out in a primary school
• Helping out in a special school.
• Helping out in nursery school
• Helping school staff at lunch time.
• Helping teacher in primary school
• Helping the sick.
• Helping with children's English.
• Helping with cub scouts
• I gave my details to volunteer for the UWT however the administration has changed hands and I have yet to actually volunteer
• I have done peer tutoring.
• I help with after school clubs at a Primary School every ednesday
• I organise displays, carry heavy things, sort through files etc.
• In a primary school
• leader in guides e.g organize games, make food and drinks etc
• Leadership
• looking after animals, cleaning cages, walking dogs etc.
• Looking after children
• Looking after kids
• Organising games, groups talking to the kids getting them all involved, getting to know the kids.
• Oxfam
• Painting over sectarian graffiti.
• Paired reading in local Primary School
• Playing guitar at church.
• Playing music (in church and nursing homes)
• Practical help within the family business (e.g. washing cars, heavy listing, midnight call outs).
• Primary School
• primary school summer scheme
• Providing medical cover at events with St. John Ambulance
• Providing service on match days.
• Retirement Home
• Rise money.
• School organised a collection for Saint Vincent de Paul
• Shop keeping
• Sorting stock etc in charity shop
• St. John's Ambulance (3 respondents)
• summer club
• Taking part in a choir and orchestra - practice and performance.
• Taught an Irish class from age 6-11.
• Teaching drama and going on trips with a summer scheme.
• Visiting countries and helping out
• Voluntary fundraising " Volunteering in a vets
• Walking dogs & cleaning animal enclosures in an animal sanctuary.
• with special needs and younger children
• Work on home farm
• working with young children

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