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Recent Research by the Community Service Volunteers (CSV) reported that:
Volunteering improves physical health and fitness
Volunteering helps individuals to loose weight
Volunteers noticed a reduction in their chocolate consumption
Volunteering meant they drank less alcohol
Volunteering helped them to smoke less
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The student magazine Get*A*Hed 2005 stated that:
62% of employers use work experience to find permanent staff
73% of employers would employ candidates with volunteering experience over one who has none.
94% of employers believe that volunteering can add skills.
58% of employers say volunteering work experience can actually be more valuable than experience in paid employment.
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Volunteering can improve your love life! A Community Service Volunteers (CSV) survey last year found that:
One in five 18 to 24-year-olds said volunteering had improved their sex lives, especially those who offered their professional skills, or got involved in conservation or heritage work.
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The Millennium Volunteers scheme has found that:
80% of student volunteers continue volunteering after they leave college , - once they try it they tend to get the bug.
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The Home Office Citizenship Survey (2003) found that:
Volunteers contributed 1.9bn hours in 2003 (the equivalent of about a million full-time workers) .
Volunteering is worth £22.6bn a year to the UK economy.
72% of voluntary and community organisations employ no paid staff.
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