Volunteers carry out €9m worth of work for free

Volunteers carried out over 420,000 hours of work last year, equating to more than €9m worth of free work.

According to a survey released by Volunteering Ireland to mark National Volunteering Week, nearly 11,000 people registered with the group’s 22 volunteer centres across Ireland and carried out 425,000 hours of voluntary work during the year.

Using the average industrial wage, this work equates to a value of over €9.2m.